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Otto Robert Frisch

1904 - 1979

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Otto Robert Frisch (1 October 1904 – 22 September 1979) was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Otto Stern and Immanuel Estermann, he first measured the magnetic moment of the proton. With his aunt, Lise Meitner, he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission (coining the term) and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator, Rudolf Peierls, he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Otto Robert Frisch is the 310th most popular physicist (down from 258th in 2019), the 294th most popular biography from Austria (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 10th most popular Austrian Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 310 out of 851. Before him are Yuri Oganessian, Anna Mani, Freeman Dyson, Alain Aspect, Rainer Weiss, and Andre Geim. After him are Dennis W. Sciama, Christoph Scheiner, Daniel C. Tsui, John Vincent Atanasoff, Steven Chu, and Hagen Kleinert.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 51. Before him are George Balanchine, Charles J. Pedersen, Karl Rahner, Tadao Takayama, Héctor Castro, and Clifford D. Simak. After him are František Plánička, Prince Ernst of Hohenberg, Serge Lifar, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Luigi Dallapiccola, and Moshé Feldenkrais. Among people deceased in 1979, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 45. Before him are Rachele Mussolini, Giulio Natta, Edvard Kardelj, Wilfred Bion, Mamie Eisenhower, and Dimitri Tiomkin. After him are Jean-Marie Villot, Alfredo Ottaviani, Peggy Guggenheim, Louis Chiron, Nicholas Ray, and Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 294 out of 1,424. Before him are Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria (1892), Cecilia Renata of Austria (1611), Bertha Pappenheim (1859), Friedrich Adler (1879), William, Duke of Austria (1370), and Max Steiner (1888). After him are Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria (1762), Matthäus Hetzenauer (1924), Maria Christina, Princess of Transylvania (1574), István Széchenyi (1791), Ferdinand Čatloš (1895), and Archduchess Maria Elisabeth of Austria (1737).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Austria

Among physicists born in Austria, Otto Robert Frisch ranks 10. Before him are Ludwig Boltzmann (1844), Christian Doppler (1803), Victor Francis Hess (1883), Victor Weisskopf (1908), Anton Zeilinger (1945), and Walter Kohn (1923). After him are Fritjof Capra (1939), Berta Karlik (1904), Marian Smoluchowski (1872), Heinz von Foerster (1911), Marietta Blau (1894), and Friedrich Hasenöhrl (1874).

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