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Fritz Strassmann Bio

From Todd Helmenstine, for About.com

Fritz Strassmann:

Fritz Strassmann was a German analytical chemist.

Birth:

February 22, 1902 in Boppard, Germany

Death:

April 22, 1980 in Mainz, Germany

Claim to Fame:

Strassman was a German analytical chemist who with Otto Hahn identified the smaller element barium when uranium was bombarded by neutrons leading to the discovery of the process of nuclear fission.

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