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LLise Meitner and Otto cock in the laboratory, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1912, Berlin, Germany Otto cock was a German chemist and is one of the most important natural scientists of the 20th century. Together with Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann, he discovered the nuclear fission of the radioactive substances uranium and thorium in 1938. The discovery of nuclear fission is considered the beginning of the atomic age. In 1944, he received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
Date
Feb 22, 1909
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Photo12/ImageBROKER/Heinz Krimmer
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BRK26E26_071
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