Otto Frisch
Otto Frisch · Science & Medicine
Physicist; co-explained nuclear fission and the atomic bomb feasibility memorandum
1904, Vienna, Austria — 1979, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Austria · United Kingdom
Otto Frisch is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Physicist; co-explained nuclear fission and the atomic bomb feasibility memorandum
Otto Robert Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist who, with his aunt Lise Meitner, first explained and named nuclear fission (1939), and who with Rudolf Peierls wrote the 1940 Frisch–Peierls memorandum showing an atomic bomb was feasible, a key trigger for the Allied programme. He fled Nazi persecution as a Jew and worked on the Manhattan Project. He was Jewish.
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Physicist; co-explained nuclear fission and the atomic bomb feasibility memorandum
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Physics
