Otto Frisch
Born into a Jewish family in 1904 in Vienna, Austria. He studied science and received his doctorate in 1926.
When Adolf Hitler gained power Frisch fled Nazi Germany and went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen where he worked with Nils Bohr. In 1939 he wrote a paper with his aunt explaining the theory of uranium fission. In the paper they argued that by splitting the atom it was possible to use a few pounds of uranium to create the explosive and destructive power of many thousands of pounds of dynamite. Frisch worked in Copenhagen until 1940 when he moved to England where he worked on atomic research with James Chadwick and Rudolf Peierls.
In 1943 he joined the Manhattan Project in the US. For the next 2 years he worked with many other scientists developing the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the war he was head of the Nuclear Physics Division at Harwell before becoming professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge University. Otto Frisch died on September 22nd 1979.
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When Adolf Hitler gained power Frisch fled Nazi Germany and went to the Institute of Theoretical Physics in Copenhagen where he worked with Nils Bohr. In 1939 he wrote a paper with his aunt explaining the theory of uranium fission. In the paper they argued that by splitting the atom it was possible to use a few pounds of uranium to create the explosive and destructive power of many thousands of pounds of dynamite. Frisch worked in Copenhagen until 1940 when he moved to England where he worked on atomic research with James Chadwick and Rudolf Peierls.
In 1943 he joined the Manhattan Project in the US. For the next 2 years he worked with many other scientists developing the atom bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
After the war he was head of the Nuclear Physics Division at Harwell before becoming professor of natural philosophy at Cambridge University. Otto Frisch died on September 22nd 1979.
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