Otto Robert Frisch

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Noun1.Otto Robert Frisch - 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)
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In the 1940s, at the city's University, Rudolph Peierls and Otto Robert Frisch developed a technique whereby uranium bombs could be constructed with a critical mass of only 6kg, which made them a viable airborne threat.
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