biography
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| (1879–1968)
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| biography:
| Physical chemist, born in Frankfurt, WC Germany. He studied at the University of Marburg, and lectured in Berlin from 1907, becoming director of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute there in 1927. With Meitner he discovered the radioactive element protactinium (1917), and in 1938 bombarded uranium with neutrons to find the first chemical evidence of nuclear fission products. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. |
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