Post by KaiserFriedrich in Atomic Hero(Destructor...) comments

Viewing post in Atomic Hero(Destructor...) comments

If you're curious about History too, I must make a correction even there; Oppenheimer didn't discover the Nuclear Fission, he played a significant role in the development of the atomic bomb during the Manhattan Project, but the the groundbreaking discovery of nuclear fission in 1938 was made by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann

Featured articles are considered to be some of the best articles Wikipedia has to offer, as determined by Wikipedia's editors

A good article (GA) is a Wikipedia article that meets a core set of editorial standards, the good article criteria, passing through the good article nomination process successfully.

KaiserFriedrich1 year ago (12 edits)

And don't forget woman's contribution in this discovery!

Lise Meitner was an Austrian-Swedish nuclear physicist who was instrumental in the discoveries of nuclear fission and protactinium. Completing her doctoral research in 1905, Meitner became the second woman from the University of Vienna to earn a doctorate in physics.

I also forgot to mention another Physicist:

Otto Robert Frisch was a British physicist of Austrian birth who specialised in nuclear physics. He first measured the magnetic moment of the proton with Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann. Alongside his aunt, Lise Meitner, he developed the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission, coining the term, and was the first to detect the fission by-products experimentally. Later, in 1940, he and his collaborator Rudolf Peierls designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb.

itch.io

Viewing post in Atomic Hero(Destructor...) comments