Otto Hahn Research Paper

Biography:

The man who is known for his discovery of nuclear fission, Otto Hahn, was born on March 8th, 1879 at Frankfurt-on-Main. He is often referred to as the “Father of Nuclear Chemistry” because of his great success in this field of science. Otto Hahn was a chemist who was very familiar with the topics radioactivity and radiochemistry, which helped him learn about the fission of the element Uranium. His works with Uranium eventually led to Hahn receiving the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in the year of 1944, and the creation of one of the deadliest weapons on the face of the earth, the atomic bomb. Otto as a child was forced to follow in the families footsteps and become a farmer like his father and those before him. He became a farmer, but

She had come to Berlin to attend Max Planck’s lectures on theoretical physics after receiving her doctorate in physics from the University of Vienna in 1905—the second doctorate in science from that university granted to a woman. In the first year of the Hahn–Meitner partnership they had to work in a remodeled carpenter’s shop because the university did not yet accept women on an official basis. Otto Hahn and his team then set out to discover multiple types and uses of isotopes of an alkaline earth metal in their sample. The metal was detected by the use of an organic barium salt, which was constructed by the brilliant Wilhelm Traube. Finding a group 2 alkaline earth metal was problematic, because it did not logically fit with the other elements found thus far. When Hahn and Strassmann bombarded uranium the element barium mysteriously appeared. Neither Hahn nor Strassmann knew what their results meant. It would take Meitner and her nephew Otto Frisch, a Jewish refugee working in Copenhagen with Niels Bohr, a few hours of work while at a ski resort to explain the mystery. Unbelievably, Meitner realized, the uranium nucleus split into two roughly equal chunks, one of which was likely to be barium. The reaction was accompanied by an enormous release of energy. Frisch and Meitner called it "fission." Otto Hahn initially suspected it to be radium, this is because it produced by splitting off two alpha-particles from the uranium nucleus. At the time of this event, the scientific consensus was that even splitting off two alpha particles from the output of this process was unlikely. The idea of turning uranium into barium (by removing around 100 nucleons) was seen as preposterous due to the amount of knowledge at that time. Einstein's equation, which contributed to the loss of mass resulting from the splitting process, must have been