Published “Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,801 times.
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Otto Hahn
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered isotopes of the radioactive elements radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of atomic recoil and nuclear…
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science · German nuclear chemist and Nobel laureate (1879–1968) · chemist · university teacher · non-fiction writer · nuclear physicist · autobiographer · physicist · also Otto Hahn, O. Hahn, Otto Emil Hahn, Hahn
Born 8 March 1879 · Died 28 July 1968 · Q57065
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2012· 2 entries
Published “Observation of a new boson at a mass of 125 GeV with the CMS experiment at the LHC” in Physics Letters B — cited 6,664 times.
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2010· 1 entry
Published “Extended-Connectivity Fingerprints” in Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling — cited 6,857 times.
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1992· 1 entry
Element 108 was discovered by a German research team, and they proposed the name hassium (after Hesse)
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1990· 1 entry
The Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize for outstanding contributions to Italian art history was established in memory of Hanno and Ilse Hahn to support young and talented art historians
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1971· 1 entry
By American chemists, that the newly synthesised element 105 should be named hahnium in Hahn's honour, but in 1997 the IUPAC named it dubnium, after the Russian research centre in Dubna
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1968· 1 entry
Died 1968-07-28.
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1966· 2 entries
Awarded Enrico Fermi Award for nuclear fission (1966).
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With the title Otto Hahn: A Scientific Autobiography, with an introduction by Glenn Seaborg
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1962· 1 entry
Published a book, Vom Radiothor zur Uranspaltung (lit
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1959· 7 entries
Awarded Grand Cross 1st class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1959).
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Awarded Officer of the Legion of Honour (1959).
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Won Helmholtz Medal (1959).
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Awarded honorary citizen of Frankfurt am Main (1959).
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Won Ernst Reuter Medal (1959).
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Hahn co-founded in Berlin the Federation of German Scientists (VDW), a non-governmental organisation, which has been committed to the ideal of responsible science
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Co-founded the Federation of German Scientists, a non-governmental organisation committed to the ideal of responsible science
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1958· 1 entry
Won Wilhelm Exner Medal (1958).
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1957· 2 entries
Awarded Officer of the Order of the British Empire (1957).
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Awarded Foreign Member of the Royal Society (1957).
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1956· 2 entries
Awarded Faraday Lectureship Prize (1956).
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Hahn repeated his appeal with the signature of 52 of his Nobel colleagues from all parts of the world
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1954· 2 entries
Awarded Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (1954).
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Won Harnack medal (1954).
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1953· 1 entry
Awarded Paracelsus Prize (1953).
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1952· 2 entries
Awarded Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts order (1952).
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And had a minor heart attack the following year
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1949· 4 entries
Won Max Planck Medal (1949).
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The five institutes located in the French zone joined them
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The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) named the new element definitively protactinium, and confirmed Hahn and Meitner as discoverers
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(equivalent to €32 million in 2021) to 47 million in 1960 (equivalent to €115 million in 2021), and the workforce grew from 1,400 to nearly 3,000
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1946· 1 entry
And as the founding president of its successor, the Max Planck Society from 1948 to 1960
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1944· 6 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry — for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
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Awarded Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt (1944).
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Won Cothenius Medal (1944).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944).
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Which also decided to defer the award for one year
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Hoernes faced being conscripted for forced labour
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1942· 1 entry
And served on the Eastern Front in World War II as a panzer commander
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1940· 1 entry
And never returned, Diebner was installed as its director
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1938· 1 entry
Hahn, Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn alone was awarded the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry
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1937· 2 entries
Strassmann and Ernst Walling extracted 253
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As president by Carl Bosch, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the chairman of the board of IG Farben, a company which had bankrolled the Nazi Party since 1932
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1936· 1 entry
Cornell University Press published a book in English (and later in Russian) titled Applied Radiochemistry, which contained the lectures given by Hahn when he was a visiting professor at Cornell University in Ithaca, New
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1933· 2 entries
And the NSDAP in 1937, and wore his SA uniform at the KWIC, and for Heinrich Hörlein and Fritz ter Meer from IG Farben
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Strassmann declined a lucrative offer of employment because it required political training and Nazi Party membership
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1932· 1 entry
Irène Curie and Frédéric Joliot irradiated aluminium foil with alpha particles
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1924· 3 entries
Awarded honorary member of the Physics Association (Frankfurt am Main, Germany) (1924).
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And succeeded Alfred Stock as the director in 1928
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Hahn was elected to full membership of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin, by a vote of thirty white balls to two black
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1919· 3 entries
Awarded Fresenius Prize (1919).
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Won Emil Fischer Medal (1919).
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That when actinium is treated with hydrofluoric acid, it remains in the insoluble residue
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1917· 1 entry
Awarded knight of the Royal House Order of Hohenzollern with Swords (1917).
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1916· 2 entries
Awarded General Honor Decoration (1916).
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By a mission to Verdun to introduce shells filled with phosgene to the Western Front
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1914· 1 entry
(equivalent to €369,000 in 2021) from Knöfler for the mesothorium process, of which he gave 10 per cent to Meitner
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1913· 1 entry
Chemists Frederick Soddy and Kasimir Fajans independently observed that alpha decay caused atoms to move down two places on the periodic table, while the loss of two beta particles restored it to its original position
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1912· 1 entry
Became head of the Radioactivity Department of the newly founded Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry (KWIC)
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1910· 1 entry
Hahn was appointed professor by the Prussian Minister of Culture and Education, August von Trott zu Solz
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1906· 1 entry
Hahn returned to Germany, where Fischer placed at his disposal a former woodworking shop (Holzwerkstatt) in the basement of the Chemical Institute to use as a laboratory
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1904· 1 entry
Working under Sir William Ramsay, who was known for having discovered the noble gases
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1901· 3 entries
Hahn studied under Sir William Ramsay at University College London and at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, under Ernest Rutherford, where he discovered several new radioactive isotopes
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Hahn received his doctorate at Marburg University for a dissertation entitled "On Bromine Derivates of Isoeugenol", a topic in classical organic chemistry
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Studied at University of Marburg (1897–1901).
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1897· 1 entry
After passing his Abitur, Hahn began to study chemistry at Marburg University
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1879· 1 entry
Born 1879-03-08.
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