| Authorised form of name | Hahn; Otto (1879 - 1968) |
| Dates | 1879 - 1968 |
| Place of birth | Frankfurt am Main, Germany |
| Date of birth | 08 March 1879 |
| Place of death | Gottingen, Germany |
| Date of death | 28/07/1968 |
| Research field | Radiochemistry |
| Activity | Medals and prizes:
Nobel Prize (Chemistry) 1944 |
| Membership category | Foreign Member |
| Date of election | 09/05/1957 |
| Sources | Sources:
DSB
References:
Sir Charles Frank, 'The Farm Hall Transcripts' (Bristol and Philadelphia: institute of Physics Pulishing; Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1993)
G V R Born, FRS, 'The wide-ranging family history of Max Born' in NR 2002 vol 56 pp 219-262
P Fara, ' Big bangs. Invisible rays: a history of radioactivity' by G I Brown
W van der Kloot, 'April 1915: Five Future Nobel Prize-Winners Inaugurate Weapons Of Mass Destruction And The Academic-Industrial-Military Complex' in NR 2004 vol 58 pp 149-160
Obituaries:
Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society 1970 vol 16 pp 279-313, plate, by R Spence |
| Royal Society code | NA622 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
| Reference number | Title | Date |
| PB/1/33/1/4 | Nobel Prize | 1948 |
| EC/1957/28 | Hahn, Otto: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
| IM/Meitner Graf/001831 | Hahn, Otto | nd |
| NLB/30/348 | Copy letter from Joseph Larmor, to Dr Otto Hahn, [Fellow of the Royal Society], care of Sir William Ramsay, Fellow of the Royal Society, University College, W.C. | March 1905 |