1. Otto Hahn
(8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968)

2. Greatest
Accomplishment
• Discovery of radioactive elements
Quote
“First we attacked the Russian
soldiers with our gases, and then
when we saw the poor fellows
lying there, dying slowly, we tried
to make breathing easier for them
by using our own life-saving
devices on them.”
Otto Hahn

3. Personal Life
and Family History
• Otto enjoyed a sheltered childhood
• At 15 he began to take a special interest in chemistry and carried out simple
experiments in the laundry room.
• His father wanted him to study architecture
• Parents
• Heinrich Hahn (1845–1922), a prosperous glazier and entrepreneur
("Glasbau Hahn"), and Charlotte Hahn, née Giese (1845–1905).
• Brothers
• Karl
• Heiner
• Julius
• Wife
• Edith Junghans, the daughter of the chairman of Stettin City Council
• Married in 1913

4. Education
• In 1897, begun to study chemistry
and mineralogy at the University of
Marburg
• received his doctorate in Marburg
for a dissertation entitled On
Bromine Derivates of Isoeugenol, a
topic from the field of classical
organic chemistry
Positions Held
• for two years he worked as assistant
to his doctoral supervisor,
Geheimrat Professor Theodor
Zincke

5. Awards Recieved
• Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1944)
• Max Planck Medal (1949)
• Pour le Mérite (1952)
• Faraday Medal (1956)
• Légion d'Honneur (1959)
• Enrico Fermi Award (1966)
Contributions
• Radioactive Recoil
• Fajans-Paneth-Hahn Law
• Protactinium
• Nuclear isomerism
• Nuclear fission

6. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Otto_Hahn
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/251675/Otto-Hahn
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/ottohahn228803.html
Student ID: 94249896

7. References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_Hahn
http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Otto_Hahn
http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/251675/Otto-Hahn
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/o/ottohahn228803.html
Student ID: 94249896