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Born March 8, 1879 • Frankfurt am Main • Germany
Died July 28, 1968 (aged 89) • Göttingen • Germany
Awards And Honors Nobel Prize (1944)
Subjects Of Study nuclear fission • protactinium-231 • radioactivity • radiothorium

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