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-The artificial transmutation of uranium created great excitement
-Uranium had the atomic number 92 but Enrico Fermi believed he had synthesized elements beyond that
-Mietner and Otto Hahn started investigating neutron-induced uranium decay at the end of 1934 -
Hahn was sure of the chemical evidence of transurance
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The political situation in Germany had become dangerous.
anti-Nazi Hahn and strassmen had to be careful -
-Nuclear investigators in both fields had explained uranium transformation
-Otto wrote to Hahn that she fount that splitting to Ba was beautiful results -
Hohn was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry
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lise meitner was not recognized until her death in 1968