Otto Robert Frisch

Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS
Otto Robert Frisch's wartime Los Alamos ID badge photo
Born	(1904-10-01)1 October 1904 Vienna, Austria-Hungary
Died	22 September 1979(1979-09-22) (aged 74) Cambridge, United Kingdom
Nationality	Austrian
Citizenship	Austria United Kingdom
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Known for	Atomic bomb
Awards	Fellow of the Royal Society[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
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Otto Robert Frisch OBE FRS^[1] (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 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^[1] he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.^[2]