# Otto Hahn
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otto hahn (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈhaːn] ; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) 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.
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street.
Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "moonshine," Szilard envisioned a nuclear chain reaction: if an element could be found that emits tw…
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 2
In the summer of 1945, the forbidding landscape of the New Mexico desert, known as the Jornada del Muerto, became the stage for the birth of the atomic age.
At the center of this "Journey of Death," a 100-foot steel tower held "the gadget"—a five-foot sphere of explosives and metal containing a he…
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How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street.
Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "moonshine," Szilard envisioned a nuclear chain reaction: if an element could be found that emits two…
The Clock That Shouldn't Tick
In 1938, a rejected physicist turned to cleaning glassware in a lab where he accidentally discovered nuclear fission—the splitting of atoms that would reshape civilization. But Otto Hahn's discovery came with a devastating realization: he had unlocked a force that could either power cities or oblit…
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 2
In the summer of 1945, the forbidding landscape of the New Mexico desert, known as the Jornada del Muerto, became the stage for the birth of the atomic age.
At the center of this "Journey of Death," a 100-foot steel tower held "the gadget"—a five-foot sphere of explosives and metal containing a hea…
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