Otto Robert Frisch
Austrian-born British nuclear physicist
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- 1904
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Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator, Rudolf Peierls, he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Leading the Los Alamos Critical Assemblies experiments in 1945, he oversaw the world's first prompt criticality in the Dragon device.
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1904 births1979 deaths20th-century Austrian physicists20th-century Austrian scientists20th-century British physicistsAcademics of Birkbeck, University of LondonAcademics of the University of BirminghamAustrian JewsAustrian nuclear physicistsAustrian refugeesBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish nuclear physicists