Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn, OBE , ForMemRS was a German chemist and pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944 for the discovery and the radiochemical proof of nuclear fission. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry.

In June 1911, while attending a conference in Stettin Otto Hahn met the young Edith Junghans , an art student at the Knigliche Kunstschule in Berlin. OnMarch 1913 the couple married in Ediths native city of Stettin, where her father, Paul Ferdinand Junghans, was a highranking law officer and President of the City Parliament until his 1915 death. Their only child, Hanno, born in 1922, became a distinguished art historian and architectural researcher , known for his discoveries in the early Cistercian architecture of the 12th century. In August 1960, while on a study trip in France, Dr Hanno Hahn was involved in a fatal car accident, together with his wife and assistant Ilse Hahn, ne Pletz. They left a fourteenyearold son, Dietrich. In 1990, the Hanno and Ilse Hahn Prize for outstanding contributions to Italian art history was established in memory of Hanno and Ilse Hahn to support young and talented art historians. It is awarded biennially by the Bibliotheca Hertziana Max Planck

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