biography
| name: |
Frisch, Otto Robert
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1904–79)
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| biography:
| Physicist, born in Vienna, Austria. He studied at Vienna, and in 1945 became head of the nuclear physics division at Harwell. He and Meitner (his aunt) first described ‘nuclear fission’ in 1939 to explain Hahn's results with uranium and neutrons. He moved to Birmingham in 1939, and worked with Peierls on uranium fission and associated neutron emission, then became involved in the atomic bomb project at Los Alamos, USA. In 1947 he became professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge, UK, and directed the nuclear physics department of the Cavendish Laboratory. |
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