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The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel. ... [14] the 1943 prize awarded to George de Hevesy in 1944, ...
Under Nazi rule, Germans had been forbidden to accept Nobel prizes after the Nobel Peace Prize had been awarded to Carl von Ossietzky in 1936. [125] The Nobel Committee for Chemistry's recommendation was therefore rejected by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in 1944, which also decided to defer the award for one year.
Yet the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for that accomplishment went solely to her longtime collaborator, Otto Hahn. Meitner battled misogyny and sexism at every stage of her illustrious career ...
Won the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry [ab] in 1945 and nominated for Nobel Prize in Physics too. [80] Ernst Schmidt: July 13, 1845 Halle, Germany July 5, 1921
[27] [28] Nobel Prize nominations were vetted by committees of five, one for each award. Although both Hahn and Meitner received nominations for physics, radioactivity and radioactive elements had traditionally been seen as the domain of chemistry, and so the Nobel Committee for Chemistry evaluated the nominations in 1944. [128]
The year 1944 in science and technology involved some significant ... (died 2019), American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Deaths ...
In 1944, Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission, although Fritz Strassmann had been acknowledged as an equal collaborator in the discovery. [13] [14] From 1939 to 1946 working at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute, Strassman contributed to research on the fission products of thorium, uranium, and neptunium.
Fritz Haber (1868–1934), German chemist, 1918 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of the Haber process; Dorothy Hahn (1876–1950), early American organic chemist and ultraviolet spectroscopist; Otto Hahn (1879–1968), German chemist, discoverer of nuclear fission, 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, father of nuclear chemistry