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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944

"for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"
Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn
Germany
Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut (now Max-Planck Institut) für Chemie
Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
b. 1879
d. 1968
 
 
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