Most famous chemists are known for discovering elements, naming reactions, and making household cleaners. Otto Hahn saved the free world. With the help of Lise Meitner and Dr. Fritz Strassmann, Hahn discovered the groundbreaking process of nuclear fission, which paved the way for the creation of ...

J. Robert Oppenheimer J. Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904, by his mother Ella, and his father Julius. The house in New York that Oppenheimer grew up in was a very luxurious place for the time period. Oppenheimer became "an abnormally repulsively good little boy" as stated b...

THE HISTORICAL CONTEXT WHICH CONTRIBUTED TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ATOMIC BOMBTHE CHAIN REACTION BOMBAtomic bomb imagined The New York Press reports: "New hope for releasing the enormous stores of energy within the atom has arisen from German scientists". World famous Niels Bohr of Copenhagen and ...