Otto Hahn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Hahn

German chemist

Date of Birth: 08-Mar-1879

Place of Birth: Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany

Date of Death: 28-Jul-1968

Profession: chemist, university teacher, non-fiction writer, nuclear physicist, autobiographer

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Otto Hahn (8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry.
In 1938, Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission (but only he received the Nobel Prize for the discovery).
He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry.
He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission.
This process is exploited by nuclear reactors and is one of the basics of nuclear weapons that were developed in the U.S.
during World War II. He served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.
Considered by many to be a model for scholarly excellence and personal integrity, he became one of the most influential and respected citizens of the new postwar country West Germany. Hahn was an opponent of national socialism and the persecution of Jews by the Nazi Party.
Albert Einstein wrote that Hahn was "one of the very few who stood upright and did the best he could in these years of evil".
After World War II, Hahn became a passionate campaigner against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon.