Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
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a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
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Born
8 March 1879 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire (now Germany )
Died
28 July 1968 (aged 89) Göttingen, West Germany (now Germany )
Nationality
German
Known for
Discovery of radioactive elements (1905–1921) Radiothorium ( 228 Th, 1905) Radioactinium ( 227 Th, 1906) Mesothorium ( 228 Ra, 1907) Ionium ( 230 Th, 1907) Radioactive recoil (1909) Fajans–Paneth–Hahn
Fields
Radiochemistry Nuclear chemistry
Alma mater
University of Marburg
Awards
Emil Fischer Medal (1919) Cannizzaro Prize (1939) Copernicus Prize (1941) Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944) Max Planck Medal (1949) Pour le Mérite (1952) Faraday Lectureship Prize (1956) ForMemRS (1957)
Institutions
University College London McGill University University of Berlin Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry Max Planck Society
Spouse(s)
Edith Junghans ( m. 1913)
adultbasic
Germany
Children
Hanno Hahn (1922–1960)
Doctoral advisor
Theodor Zincke
Doctoral students
Walter Seelmann-Eggebert Johannes Heidenhain Aristid von Grosse Fritz Strassmann Salomon Rosenblum Hans-Joachim Born Siegfried Flügge Nikolaus Riehl
era
1800+
Other academic advisors
Adolf von Baeyer, University of Munich Sir William Ramsay, University College London Ernest Rutherford, McGill University Montreal Emil Fischer, University of Berlin