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  1. 1879-1968. West German physical chemist, who
  2. discovered nuclear fission. Nobel prize 1944.
  3. He worked with Ernest Rutherford and William
  4. Ramsay, and became director of the Kaiser
  5. Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in 1928. In
  6. 1938 with Fritz Strassmann (1902-1980), he
  7. discovered that uranium nuclei split when
  8. bombarded with neutrons, which led to the
  9. development of the atom bomb.
  10.