Historical Note

By Cambel
  • discovery of Uranium

    The discovery of the artificial transmutation of uranium in 1934
  • Neutron-Induced Uranium Decay

    Chemical analyst Fritz Strassman began investigating neutron-induced uranium decay
  • Uranium and Protons

    uranium had the most number of protons of any known element (92)
  • Transuranes

    Hahn was sure of the chemical evidence transuranes
  • Political Germany

    The political situation in Germany had become dangerous for Meitner
  • Nobel Prize

    Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry
  • Naming

    Lise Meitner dies