OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (1904-1979) the Quiet Co-Discoverer of Nuclear Fission Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 17:00

OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (1904-1979) the Quiet Co-Discoverer of Nuclear Fission Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 17:00

Fakultät für Physik __________________________________________________________________________ Honoring OTTO ROBERT FRISCH (1904-1979) The quiet co-discoverer of nuclear fission Tuesday, October 1, 2019, 17:00 In 1938 Otto Hahn and Fritz Straßmann dis- covered nuclear fission by radiochemical means, Lise Meitner and her nephew Otto Robert Frisch shortly thereafter provided the physical expla- nation of the fission process. Otto Robert Frisch was born on October 1, 1904 in Vienna – the son of Justinian Frisch, a publisher and painter, and Auguste Meitner Frisch, a concert pianist – and studied physics at the University of Vienna. He left Vienna at age 23 and for the next 20 years he worked at many different places: Berlin – Hamburg – London – Copenhagen – Birmingham – Liverpool – Los Alamos – Harwell – Cambridge. He settled in Cambridge in 1947 and stayed there until his death on September 22, 1979. Otto Robert Frisch was an experimental physicist of extra- ordinary talent, but his unassuming attitude left him largely unknown to the public. We would like to take the occasion of his 115th birthday and the 40-year anniversary of his passing to honor this great physicist from Vienna. Otto Robert Frisch Location: Lise-Meitner-Hörsaal der Fakultät für Physik, Universität Wien Strudlhofgasse 4 / Boltzmanngasse 5, 1. Stock, 1090 Wien Barrierefreier Zugang: Boltzmanngasse 5, Lift, 1. Stock rechts über den Gang zum Hintereingang des Hörsaals Programme: 17:00 Welcome and introduction 17:15 Monica Frisch, Cambridge Personal recollections of my father Otto Robert Frisch 17:45 Walter Kutschera, University of Vienna Physics achievements of Otto Robert Frisch 18:30 Intermission and a small buffet 19:15 Tanja Traxler and David Rennert, Der Standard „The man with an aunt in every port” – Impressions from Otto Robert Frisch’s life and family __________________________________________________________________________ Boltzmanngasse 5 / Strudlhofgasse 4, 1090 Wien Tel.: 01-4277/51108 - E-Mail: walter.kutschera@univie.ac.at .

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