Otto Robert Frisch, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Otto Robert Frisch

Austrian physicist

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1904

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 22-Sep-1979

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: Austria, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Otto Robert Frisch FRS (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics.
With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products.
Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.