Otto Frisch

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Austrian-British physicist person physicist

Otto Frisch was an Austrian-British physicist best known for co-discovering nuclear fission and contributing to the early development of atomic weapons during World War II.

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Label Occurrences
Otto Frisch canonical 7
Otto Robert Frisch 4

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Austrian-British physicist ⓘ
person ⓘ
physicist ⓘ
awardReceived Holweck Prize ⓘ
Hughes Medal ⓘ
causeOfDeath heart attack ⓘ
citizenship Austria ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
coAuthorOf Frisch–Peierls memorandum ⓘ
coDiscovered nuclear fission ⓘ
coinedTerm nuclear fission ⓘ
collaboratedWith Lise Meitner ⓘ
Niels Bohr ⓘ
Rudolf Peierls ⓘ
countryOfBirth Austro-Hungarian Empire ⓘ
surface form: Austria-Hungary
countryOfDeath United Kingdom ⓘ
dateOfBirth 1904-10-01 ⓘ
dateOfDeath 1979-09-22 ⓘ
doctoralAdvisor Hans Thirring ⓘ
educatedAt University of Vienna ⓘ
employedBy University of Birmingham ⓘ
surface form: Birmingham University

Cavendish Laboratory ⓘ
Institute for Advanced Study ⓘ
Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ
ethnicGroup Jewish ⓘ
familyName Frisch ⓘ
fieldOfWork nuclear physics ⓘ
theoretical physics ⓘ
fullName Otto Frisch self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form: Otto Robert Frisch
gender male ⓘ
givenName Otto ⓘ
knownFor Frisch–Peierls memorandum ⓘ
co-discovery of nuclear fission ⓘ
early development of atomic weapons ⓘ
memberOf Royal Society ⓘ
nationality Austrian ⓘ
British ⓘ
notableIdea explanation of nuclear fission with liquid-drop model ⓘ
placeOfBirth Vienna ⓘ
placeOfDeath Cambridge, England ⓘ
surface form: Cambridge
relative Lise Meitner ⓘ
religion Judaism ⓘ
workedOn Manhattan Project ⓘ
workLocation Birmingham ⓘ
Cambridge, England ⓘ
surface form: Cambridge

Copenhagen ⓘ

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MAUD Committee → member → Otto Frisch ⓘ
Tube Alloys programme → keyPerson → Otto Frisch ⓘ
Frisch–Peierls memorandum → author → Otto Frisch ⓘ
Otto Frisch → fullName → Otto Frisch self-linksurface differs ⓘ
this entity surface form: Otto Robert Frisch
Lise Meitner → coWorker → Otto Frisch ⓘ
Lise Meitner → notableStudent → Otto Frisch ⓘ
British Mission to the Manhattan Project → notableMember → Otto Frisch ⓘ
Meitner–Hahn experiments → theoreticalInterpretationBy → Otto Frisch ⓘ
this entity surface form: Otto Robert Frisch
Meitner–Frisch interpretation of fission → author → Otto Frisch ⓘ
this entity surface form: Otto Robert Frisch
Meitner–Frisch interpretation of fission → namedAfter → Otto Frisch ⓘ
this entity surface form: Otto Robert Frisch
Elise → workedWith → Otto Frisch ⓘ
subject surface form: Lise Meitner