Fritz Strassmann
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German chemist (1902–1980)
Key facts
- Born
- Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann , ( 1902-02-22 ) 22 February 1902, Boppard , Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire
- Died
- 22 April 1980 (1980-04-22) (aged 78), Mainz , Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany
- Alma mater
- Technical University of Hannover ( PhD )
- Known for
- Discovery of nuclear fission
- Awards
- Enrico Fermi Award (1966)
- Fields
- Chemistry
- Institutions
- Kaiser Wilhelm Institute , University of Mainz
- Doctoral advisor
- Hermann Braune [ de ]
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wilhelm
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Boppard
- Place of death
- Mainz
- Occupation
- resistance fighter
- Educated at
- Leibniz University Hannover
- Languages spoken
- German
- Doctoral advisor
- Otto Hahn
- Field of work
- nuclear fission
- Work location
- Mainz
- Residence
- Germany
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- Commons category
- Fritz Straßmann
- nominated for
- Nobel Prize in Physics
- date of birth
- 1902-02-22
- date of death
- 1980-01-01
- name in native language
- Fritz Straßmann
- birth name
- Friedrich Wilhelm Straßmann
- member of
- Göttingen Eighteen
- significant person
- Lise Meitner
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- WikiProject Mathematics
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Encyclopedic overview
Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann ( German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ; 22 February 1902 – 22 April 1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Robert Frisch.
In their second publication on nuclear fission in February 1939, Strassmann and Hahn predicted the existence and liberation of additional neutrons during the fission process, opening up the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction.
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