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dec 17, 1938 - The discovery of nuclear fission

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Otto Hanh and his assistant Fritz Strassman discovered nuclear fission in Germany in 1938. It was then theoretically explained by Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch.

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dec 17, 1938
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~ 87 years ago