Hahn was born in Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, on March 8, 1879. He studied chemistry at the universities of Munich and Marburg, earning his Ph.D. from Marlburg in 1901. After graduation, he worked successively at the Chemical Institute in Marburg...

The German chemist Otto Hahn (1879-1968) was a joint discoverer of nuclear fission and a Nobel Prize winner for chemistry. Otto Hahn was born in Frankfurt am Main on March 8, 1879. He was the youngest son of the owner of a prosperous glazing business....

Otto Hahn is noted for his work on radioactive materials, which in 1938 led to his discovery, with physicist Lise Meitner and chemist Fritz Strassmann, of the process of nuclear fission. In recognition of their work, Hahn and Strassmann received the...

1879-1968 German Chemist Often regarded as the leading nuclear and radiochemical experimentalist of the twentieth century, Otto Hahn won the 1944 Nobel Prize for his discovery of nuclear fission. Widely respected for both his scientific research and...

Otto Hahn (March 8, 1879, Frankfurt am Main – July 28, 1968, Göttingen) was a German chemist who received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering nuclear fission. He is considered a pioneer of radioactivity and radiochemistry. Glenn T...

***** CORRECTION: December 3, 2004 Thursday's obituary notice for Mary E. Hahn, of Syracuse, who died December 1, 2004, misspelled the name of her surviving granddaughter, Cleis Hahn of Albany. Arrangements by the Goddard - Crandall - Shepardson Funeral Home. ...

Politics 2005 By the yardsticks of history and current polling, Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn should be political toast in the May 17 runoff for mayor of America's second-largest city. Only once in the history of the City of Angels has an incumbent...