Fritz Strassmann

Fritz Strassmann
Born	Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann 22 February 1902 Boppard, German Empire
Died	22 April 1980 (aged 78) Mainz, West Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Technical University of Hannover
Known for	Co-discovery of Nuclear fission
Awards	Enrico Fermi Award (1966)
Scientific career
Fields	Physicist, Chemist
Institutions	Kaiser-Wilhelm Institutes University of Mainz
Doctoral advisor	Hermann Braune

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Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ^ⓘ; 22 February 1902 – 22 April 1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch.^[1] In their second publication on nuclear fission in February 1939, Strassmann and Hahn predicted the existence and liberation of additional neutrons during the fission process, opening up the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction.