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Noun: Otto Robert Frisch
  1. 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)
    - Frisch, Otto Frisch

Type of: nuclear physicist

Encyclopedia: Otto Robert Frisch