Fritz (Friedrich Wilhelm) Strassman (February 22, 1902 - April 22, 1980) was a German chemist who, along with Otto Hahn, discovered the nuclear fission of uranium in 1938.
Born in Boppard, he began his chemistry studies in 1920 at the Technical University of Hannover and earned his Ph.D. in 1929.
Fritz Strassmann: "Über die Löslichkeit von Jod in gasförmiger Kohlensäure", Zeitschrift f.
FritzStrassman was born in Boppard, Germany, on 22nd February, 1902.
She moved to Sweden and in 1939 wrote a paper on nuclear fission with her nephew, Otto Frisch, where they argued that by splitting the atom it was possible to use a few pounds of uranium to create the explosive and destructive power of many thousands of pounds of dynamite.
During the Second World War Strassman and Otto Hahn continued to work in the field of nuclear physics but they made no attempt to turn their knowledge into a military weapon.
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