OTTO FRISCH

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)

Synonyms:

Frisch; Otto Frisch; Otto Robert Frisch

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Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)

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