Otto Robert Frisch

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Forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1933/34, he obtained positions in England and later at Copenhagen with <a href="/people/560/000024488/">Niels Bohr</a>. He was the nephew of <a href="/people/360/000099063/">Lise Meitner</a>, and with her in 1938 the first to describe fission of uranium after bombardment by neutrons. During World War II Frisch was part of the British delegation to the Manhattan Project, working as head of the Critical Assembly Group. He returned to England to direct the physics department at the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge. <p>    University: <a href="/edu/724/000068520/">PhD, University of Vienna (1926)</a><br>    Scholar: <a href="/edu/704/000068500/">University of Hamburg</a><br>    Scholar: <a href="/edu/628/000111295/">Birkbeck College, University of London</a><br>    Professor: <a href="/edu/735/000071522/">Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Copenhagen (1934-)</a><br>    Professor: <a href="/edu/214/000081968/">Trinity College, Cambridge University (1947-72)</a><br><p>    <a href="/group/738/000055573/">Manhattan Project</a> Critical Assembly Group (1943-46)<br>    <a href="/org/793/000055628/">Royal Society</a> 1948<br>    <a href="/event/409/000085154/">Naturalized UK Citizen</a> <br><p> <b>Author of books:</b><br> <i>Atomic Physics Today</i> (<tt>1961</tt>, physics)<br><p> <br> <p> <table> <tr> <td align=right valign=middle style="padding-right: 5px;"><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 22px; font-style: italic; color: #ff3333;">New!</span><br> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/" class="fotmlink" style="font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; color: #dd0000;">NNDB MAPPER</a></td> <td valign=middle align=right style="border-left: 1px solid #bbb; padding-left: 5px;">Create a map starting with</td> <td valign=middle align=right><a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=99819"><img src="/man.gif" border=0 style="padding: 2px;"></a></td> <td align=left valign=middle> <a href="http://mapper.nndb.com/start/?id=99819">Otto Robert Frisch</a></td> </tr> </table> <font face="Trebuchet MS, arial, helvetica, sans-serif" size="-2">Requires Flash 7+ and Javascript.</font> <br><br><p> <font size=-1>Do you know something we don't?</font><br> <font size=-1><a href="http://commentary.nndb.com/submit/feedback/?id=99819" rel="nofollow">Submit a correction or make a comment about this profile</a></font><br> <p> <br><br><p><font size=-1>Copyright ©2019 Soylent Communications</font><p> </td></tr></table> </td></tr> </table> </td> <td width=180 align="center" valign="top" style="padding: 0px 0px 8px 25px;"></td></tr> </table> </center> </body> </html>

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