In 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann found one strange element in uranium residue and accidentally opened the atomic age

In 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann made a groundbreaking discovery. Their experiments with uranium ...
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Why the ‘Mother of the Atomic Bomb’ Never Won a Nobel Prize

There is a memorable scene in “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster film about the building of the atomic bomb, in which Luis Alvarez, a physicist at the University of California, Berkeley, is reading a ...
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Recognition for the discovery of nuclear fission

The Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award celebrates breakthrough publications, books, and patents worldwide that have been revolutionary in concept, expansive in scope, and impactful in the long ...
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Nobel Prize–awarding institution receives an ACS HIST award plaque honoring the discovery of nuclear fission

On March 20, the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) presented a 2023 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award plaque to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in ...
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Nuclear Physics: Father of Fission

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