Otto Hahn Obituary

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Otto Hahn, 81, of Frankfurt (Oder), Brandenburg, passed on July 28, 1968. Otto was born on March 08, 1887. Otto Hahn was a chemist and was born in Frankfurt, Germany. He attended a secondary school most of his life then went to college at Marburg and Munich where he studied chemistry. He studied radioactivity and radio chemistry he was also known as the father of chemistry. At the end of 1938 Hahn discovered the fission of Uranium. This process is used today in nuclear power plants, uranium is very important to our energy because its highly radioactive and the atoms break apart very easily. some quotes by otto are "I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset." and "I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war."

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