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OTTO ROBERT FRISCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979)
Synonyms:
Frisch; Otto Frisch; Otto Robert Frisch
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Instance hypernyms:
nuclear physicist (a physicist who specializes in nuclear physics)