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Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (German: [fʁɪt͡s ˈʃtʁasˌman] ⓘ; 22 February 1902 – 22 April 1980) was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in December 1938, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons.
During World War I, Hahn served in the German gas warfare service headed by Haber, and Meitner volunteered as an X-ray nurse for the Austrian army. Studies in Radioactivity Fritz Strassmann.
Fritz Strassmann (born Feb. 22, 1902, Boppard, Ger.—died April 22, 1980, Mainz, W.Ger.) was a German physical chemist who, with Otto Hahn, discovered neutron-induced nuclear fission in uranium (1938) and thereby opened the field of atomic energy.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
It was December 1938 when the radiochemists Otto Hahn (above, with Lise Meitner) and Fritz Strassmann, while bombarding elements with neutrons in their Berlin laboratory, made their unexpected discovery.
Fritz Strassmann was born on February 22, 1902, in Boppard, Germany. He earned his Ph.D. from the Technical University of Hannover in 1929. In 1934, he joined Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in their investigation of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons.
In 1934, Strassmann joined Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner in their investigation of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. His expertise in chemistry contributed to the recognition of the lighter elements produced from neutron bombardment, most notably barium.
In their second publication on nuclear fission in February 1939, Hahn and Strassmann used the term Uranspaltung (uranium fission) for the first time, and predicted the existence and liberation of additional neutrons during the fission process, opening up the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction.
