we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear fission experiment from 1938. As we researched the complexities of performing the experiment, we were struck by a sobering thought ...

In 1939 Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann announced that uranium nuclei "burst" when they are bombarded with neutrons. How they came to this conclusion is a classic example of the nature of science ...

For many years, she collaborated closely with the chemist Otto Hahn; they even discovered a ... she conducted experiments that led to a Nobel Prize—awarded to two male scientists who had ...