In 1944, Otto Hahn won the Chemistry Noble Prize.
Born: 8 March 1879 Frankfurt am Main, Hesse-Nassau, Prussia, German Empire.
Died: 28 July 1968 (aged 89) Göttingen, West Germany.
Nationality: German.
Education: University of Marburg, University of Munich.
Known as: Discovery of radioactive elements (1905–1921), Radiothorium (228Th, 1905), Radioactinium (227Th, 1906), Mesothorium (228Ra, 1907), Ionium (230Th, 1907), Radioactive recoil (1909), Fajans–Paneth–Hahn Law Protactinium (Pa, 1917), Nuclear isomerism (1921), Applied Radiochemistry (1936), Rubidium-strontium dating (1938), Discovery of nuclear fission (1938).
Awards: Emil Fischer Medal (1919), Cannizzaro Prize (1939), Copernicus Prize (1941), Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944), Max Planck Medal (1949), Pour le Mérite (1952), Faraday Lectureship Prize (1956), ForMemRS (1957), Wilhelm Exner Medal (1958), Hugo Grotius Medal (1958), Legion of Honour (1959), Enrico Fermi Award (1966).
Fields: Radiochemistry, Nuclear chemistry.
