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Otto Hahn

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At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.


— Otto Hahn


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I felt profoundly ashamed, I was very much upset.


— Otto Hahn


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I knew that the Hague Convention prohibited the use of poison in war. I didn't know the details of the terms of the Convention, but I did know of that prohibition.


— Otto Hahn


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On 10 November during a visit to Copenhagen Hahn discussed these results with Niels Bohr and Lise Meitner. Hahn initially suspected it to be radium produced by splitting off two alpha-particles from the uranium nucleus. In 1917/18 Hahn and Lise Meitner isolated a long-lived activity which they named "proto-actinium".

He served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society (MPG) from 1948 to 1960. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazi Party and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon.

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