Heinrich Hahn Essay

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Was born on March 8, 1879, in Frankfurt, Germany and was a German chemist. His dad was Heinrich Hahn and mom Charlotte Hahn. Otto was not the only child but was the. youngest of four boys - Karl, Heiner, Julius, and Otto. before he became famous he went to the university of Marburg to study chemistry. He was married to Edith Junghans and had one son in the year 1901, Otto earned his doctorate degree then went to military service for one year. After that one year, he went to work at the university that he attended as an assistant for chemistry. He then travelled to London to have increase his knowledge about chemistry and English. In 1906, he visited Montreal, there he was with Ernest Rutherford, when they looked at alpha-rays of radio actinium. …show more content…

He became a professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in the year 1910, this lead him to becoming the head of the chemistry department. Hahn worked with the German army during the first world war, where he created poison for both the west and east front. Hahn after the war concentrated on chemistry, with Lise discovered Uranium Z. In the year 1936, he wrote a book named “Applied Radiochemistry” which was very helpful to many scientist. Later 1930s Hahn and his group were the first to figure out half the life of Uranium. In 1936 Hahn continued discovering and learning new things about how the Uranium split and can bomb with atoms, however they never got to finish creating a atomic bomb. In the second war, Hahn and fritz continued working their job and at the end of the war he was caught for working for the German nuclear programmed. After a couple of years, he was released in 1946. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1944 for chemistry but could not attend because he was in jail. Hahn then found out the atomic bomb dropped in japan in the year 1945 and caused many issues. He was shocked and felt guilty that he was responsible for

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