"Hahn and Strassmann were able to discover nuclear fission by exceptionally good chemistry, fantastically good chemistry, which was way ahead of what anyone else was capable of at that time. The Americans learned it to do later. But at that time, in 1938, Hahn and Strassmann were really the only ones who could do it, because they were such good chemists."
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Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner in an interview with the German television, ARD, March 8, 1959.
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Otto Hahn
1879 – 1968
deutscher Chemiker (Nobelpreis 1944)
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