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| | Otto Hahn |
 | | Otto Hahn, the son of a glazier, was born in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, on 8th March, 1879. |
 | | She moved to Sweden and in 1939 wrote a paper on nuclear fission with her nephew, Otto Frisch, where they argued that by splitting the atom it was possible to use a few pounds of uranium to create the explosive and destructive power of many thousands of pounds of dynamite. |
 | | In April, 1945, Allied forces arrested German scientists such as Hahn, Werner Heisenberg, Carl von Weizsacker, Max von Laue, Karl Wirtz, and Walter Gerlach. |
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