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Text__FhNUUKOeEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_title=Fission of the Uranium Nucleus
Text__FhNUUKOeEd-WfYQ0GneCwQ_text=<p>Otto Hahn and Fritz Stra\u00DFmann irradiate uranium with slow neutrons and observe, instead of the expected radium, the emergence of an element which chemically behaves like barium. They communicate their unexpected discovery to Lise Meitner who fled from Nazism to Sweden. She found a conclusive explanation\: Releasing energy, the nucleus of uranium has been split into a nucleus of barium and a nucleus of krypton.</p>