Otto Robert Frisch

Physicist, Academic

1904 – 1979

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Who was Otto Robert Frisch?

Otto Robert Frisch FRS was an Austrian-British physicist. With his German-British collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.

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Born
Oct 1, 1904
Vienna
Religion
  • Judaism
Ethnicity
  • Jewish people
Nationality
  • United Kingdom
  • Austria
Profession
Education
  • University of Vienna
Died
Sep 22, 1979
Cambridge

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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