Died 1979-09-22.
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Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator, Rudolf Peierls, he designed the first theoretica…
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Born 1 October 1904 · Died 22 September 1979 · Q93479
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1961· 1 entry
“The Great Physicists from Galileo to Einstein”
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1946· 1 entry
Returned to England to take up the post of head of the nuclear physics division of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment at Harwell, though he also spent much of the next thirty years teaching at Cambridge where he
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1945· 1 entry
Oversaw the world's first prompt criticality in the Dragon device
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1944· 1 entry
At Los Alamos, one of Frisch's tasks as the leader of the Critical Assemblies group was to accurately determine the exact amount of enriched uranium which would be required to create the critical mass, the mass of uraniu
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1943· 1 entry
Having been hurriedly made a British subject
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1938· 1 entry
Visited his aunt Lise Meitner in Kungälv
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1934· 1 entry
“Atomic Physics and the Description of Nature”
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1933· 1 entry
Caused Otto Robert Frisch to make the decision to move to London, where he joined the staff at Birkbeck College and worked with the physicist Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett on cloud chamber technology and artificial rad
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1926· 1 entry
With some work on the effect of the newly discovered electron on salts
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1904· 2 entries
Born 1904-10-01.
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To a Jewish family, the son of Justinian Frisch, a painter, and Auguste Meitner Frisch, a concert pianist
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