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Nuclear Fission

Austria · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records
1938–1939Date range
2Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1938

Lise MeitnerDecember 1938

Kungalv · Science / Physics

Interprets uranium splitting as nuclear fission.

1939

Otto Robert Frisch16 January 1939

Copenhagen · Science / Physics

Confirms uranium fission experimentally with Meitne

Names involved

Lise MeitnerOtto Robert Frisch

Provenance

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