Otto Hahn
He discovered nuclear fission with Lise Meitner, earning the Nobel Prize in chemistry.
Quotes by Otto Hahn
Science without ethics is a path to ruin.
In letters to Meitner, we pondered the impossible.
Humor lightens the lab's heavy air: Why fission? To split the bill!
Life's reactions are unpredictable, much like uranium.
Art inspires the scientist to see patterns in chaos.
The bomb's legacy haunts every atomic scientist.
Key to our work: Persistent questioning of the obvious.
Wisdom comes from knowing when to stop splitting atoms.
To my successor: Guard the flame of curiosity.
Philosophy of science: Observe, hypothesize, verify, repeat.
A comeback to critics: Your skepticism fuels my reactor.
In the garden of elements, fission bloomed unexpectedly.
Meaning is found in collaboration, not isolation.
Politics and atoms: A dangerous dance.
Life's brevity urges us to uncover nature's secrets swiftly.
Like a painter, the chemist blends colors of matter.
Our major work on protactinium paved the way to uranium's heart.
On my deathbed: I leave a world changed, for better or worse.
Aphorism: The atom teaches humility before its power.