List of Famous people with last name Strassmann

Wolfgang Strassmann

First Name Wolfgang

Last Name Strassmann

Born on October 8, 1821

Died on December 6, 1885 (aged 64)

Born in Poland, Greater Poland Voivodeship

Wolfgang Straßmann was a German physician and liberal politician. He fought in the March Revolution of 1848 and the First Schleswig War. In 1877, he became a member of the Prussian House of Representatives and from 1875 to 1885, he was the President of the Berlin town Council.

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Fritz Strassmann

Friedrich Wilhelm Straßmann

First Name Fritz

Last Name Strassmann

Born on February 22, 1902

Died on April 22, 1980 (aged 78)

Born in Germany, Rhineland-Palatinate

Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Strassmann was a German chemist who, with Otto Hahn in early 1939, identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch.

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