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Otto cock and Lise Meitner in the laboratory, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, 1913 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. Germany, contemporary history, historical
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