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Term Nuclear Fission

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

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1939

Otto Robert FrischJanuary 1939

Copenhagen · Science / Physics

Introduces the term nuclear fission while explaining the splitting of uranium nuclei with Lise Meitner.

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Otto Robert Frisch

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