2006-10-09 10:44:59 · 14 answers · asked by Onions 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Enrico Fermi was the first to study nuclear fission since 1934, but were Strassman and Otto Hahn the first to observe the production of two different atomic species dividing Uranium in Barium and other particles around 1939
2006-10-09 10:53:10 · answer #1 · answered by CHESSLARUS 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
They appeared for ones whose nucleii have been much less good, and consequently extra handy to cut up. oftentimes, the heavier the nucleus (the extra protons and neutrons), the less good the atom. in addition they needed atoms that are recent in some abundance certainly. The heaviest ingredient plentiful in nature is uranium. so a ways as we can tell or degree, each and every atom of an isotope (like U-238) of uranium (or the different ingredient) is comparable. So one atom of U-238 is not extra particular than the different.
2016-12-08 11:41:38 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was John Cockcroft and Ernest Walton. They split Lithium atoms in 1932 and rlater eceived the Nobel Prize in physics for 1951
2006-10-10 02:10:38 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Otto Han and Fritz Strassman are largerly credited for the splitting of the atom in 1938. However, Otto Han was following the work of Lise Meitner which was forced to leave Germany because she was jewish. Meitner was the one that interpreted the results and reached the conclusion that the atom has been split. Poor Otto did not have a clue!.
Han's paper did not include Meitner's name and she did not get the Nobel prize with him.
2006-10-09 11:53:36 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. J. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If you mean who performed the first controlled, sustained nuclear fission experiment, it was Enrico Fermi, in December of 1942 at the University of Chicago. The nuclear pile (uranium) was actually built in a racquetball court, and the emergency mechanism was a couple of guys actually standing on top of the pile with buckets full of cadmium salts to flood the pile if things, uh, went bad.
2006-10-09 10:53:05 · answer #5 · answered by astazangasta 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Enrico Fermi and his staff of scientists started the first chain reaction at the University of Chicago in 1939.
2006-10-09 10:46:58 · answer #6 · answered by Wego The Dog 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It was first split in the Berlin laboratory of Otto Hahn, in 1938. Hahn and his student Fritz Strassman bombarded uranium with neutrons and studied the results; they detected barium in the debris, something Hahn thought was impossible.
2006-10-09 10:50:45 · answer #7 · answered by FrogDog 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Ernest Rutherford.
2006-10-09 10:47:09 · answer #8 · answered by Cupcake 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Doctor Jekyl, and Mr. Hyde.
2006-10-09 10:47:16 · answer #9 · answered by Lenneth's true challenge 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oppenheimer, or Fermi.
2006-10-09 10:51:54 · answer #10 · answered by chanljkk 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋