Some weeks ago Dr. Otto Hahn of Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute donned his work clothes, walked into his laboratory to perform a physical experiment. With a stream of neutrons (obtainable by ...

To help television audiences understand the story we were attempting to tell in Britain’s Nuclear Secrets: Inside Sellafield, we needed to recreate Otto Hahn’s famous atom-splitting nuclear ...

An Austrian Jew and a woman, Meitner was constrained early in her career to working without pay in a basement room in Berlin. For many years, she collaborated closely with the chemist Otto Hahn ...