“We [Frisch and Lise Meitner] walked up and down in the snow, I on skis and she on foot (she said and proved that she could get along just as fast that way), and gradually the idea took shape that this was no chipping or cracking of the nucleus but rather a process to be explained by Bohr's idea that the nucleus was like a liquid drop; such a drop might elongate and divide itself.”
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Otto Robert Frisch
Otto Robert Frisch was a renowned physicist known for his contributions to quantum mechanics and atomic physics. In 1938, along with Francis Crick, he proposed a revolutionary hypothesis about the structure of DNA, which had a profound impact on biology and medicine. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for his work. more
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