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Otto Hahn
(8 Mar 1879 - 28 Jul 1968)
German physical chemist.
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Science Quotes by Otto Hahn (1)
As chemists, we must rename [our] scheme and insert the symbols Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As nuclear chemists closely associated with physics, we cannot yet convince ourselves to make this leap, which contradicts all previous experience in nuclear physics.
Co-author with Fritz Strausmann, German chemist (1902-80)
Co-author with Fritz Strausmann, German chemist (1902-80)
— Otto Hahn
'(Über den nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkallmetalle', Die Naturwissenschaften, 1939, 27, 11-15. Trans. J. Heilbron and Robert W. Seidel, Lawrence and his Laboratory: A History of the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1989), Vol. 1, 436-7.
See also: | Nuclear Physics (2)
