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    3 months ago

    Also she herself said that Otto Hahn deserved the Nobel prize. She and Otto Frisch (far kess known than she is!) did the theoretical work regarding the physics behind it.

    But Pauli got the physics prize that year, and he sure deserves it. Maybe one of the later prices could have been awarded to her.

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      3 months ago

      Otto Frisch is better known these days because he went on to work on the Manhatten Project. He appeared as a character in Oppenheimer.