CHEMIST

Otto Hahn

1879 - 1968

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Otto Hahn has received more than 1,440,828 page views. His biography is available in 83 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 79 in 2019). Otto Hahn is the 15th most popular chemist (up from 18th in 2019), the 139th most popular biography from Germany (up from 169th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular German Chemist.

Otto Hahn was a German chemist who is most famous for the discovery of nuclear fission.

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Among CHEMISTS

Among chemists, Otto Hahn ranks 15 out of 602. Before him are Jabir ibn Hayyan, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Svante Arrhenius, Fritz Haber, Carl Wilhelm Scheele, and Wilhelm Ostwald. After him are Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac, Linus Pauling, Edwin McMillan, Friedrich Wöhler, and Paul Karrer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Otto Hahn ranks 8. Before him are Joseph Stalin, Leon Trotsky, Paul Klee, Kazimir Malevich, Emperor Taishō, and Max von Laue. After him are Franz von Papen, Francis Picabia, Emiliano Zapata, Alma Mahler, Owen Willans Richardson, and Symon Petliura. Among people deceased in 1968, Otto Hahn ranks 6. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, Helen Keller, Marcel Duchamp, Martin Luther King Jr., and Lise Meitner. After him are Padre Pio, John Steinbeck, Lev Landau, Konstantin Rokossovsky, Robert F. Kennedy, and Trygve Lie.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Otto Hahn ranks 139 out of 7,253. Before him are George I of Great Britain (1660), Georg Philipp Telemann (1681), Baron Munchausen (1720), Max von Laue (1879), Christian IX of Denmark (1818), and Meister Eckhart (1260). After him are Max Müller (1823), Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet (1805), Frederick William III of Prussia (1770), Gerd von Rundstedt (1875), Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767), and Rudolf Christoph Eucken (1846).

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Among CHEMISTS In Germany

Among chemists born in Germany, Otto Hahn ranks 2. Before him are Carl Wilhelm Scheele (1742). After him are Friedrich Wöhler (1800), Emil Fischer (1852), Eduard Buchner (1860), Justus von Liebig (1803), Robert Bunsen (1811), Carl Bosch (1874), August Kekulé (1829), Adolf von Baeyer (1835), Adolf Butenandt (1903), and Adolf Windaus (1876).

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