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    Otto Hahn was a great scientist that did multiple things to advance the scientific field. Otto Hahn was born March 8, 1879 and died on July 28, 1968. In his early years he was debating being an architect but later went on to become a German chemist. Hahn attended the University of Marburg and recieved his doctorate degree in 1901. He served one year in the military. In 1904, he went to London to learn English and ended up working at the University College. At University College, Hahn ended up working with physical chemisist Sir William Ramsay. Ramsay gave Hahn crude radium to purify. While purifying, Hahn discovered a new radioactive substance that he later named radiothorium. After this discovery, Ramsay pushed Hahn to further his research in radioactivity instead of in industry. In 1906, Hahn returned to Germany. He moved to Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry at…

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    Otto Hahn was born in Frankfurt, Germany, in 1879. Hahn quickly took an interest in chemistry in his early years. By 1897 at age 18, Hahn was attending the University of Marburg studying chemistry. After taking his doctorate exam at only age 22 in 1901 and then working as an assistant at the University of Marburg, Hahn moved on from organic chemistry into the field of studying radiochemistry and radioactivity in London with Sir William Ramsay, the British chemist most known for discovering the…

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    lose hope on finding a job in physics, until her mentor, Ludwig Boltzmann committed suicide. After she heard the news she became even more determined to continue with physics. In 1906 Dr. Meitner began to work on the question of whether alpha particles are only absorbed as they pass through matter, or if they also scattered. Lise discovered a method of proving that the particles did indeed scatter. Another accomplishment of Lise is being the first to explain how conversion electrons were…

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    family. She had entered the University of Vienna in 1901, learning under the wings of Ludwig Boltzmann. After she earned her doctorate degree in 1906, she went to Berlin in 1907 to train with Max Planck and the scientific expert Otto Hahn. She worked alongside Hahn for a long time. Lise became the first woman to be the head of the physics department in Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry. Hahn and Meitner worked together intently, examining radioactivity, with her insight of physics…

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    Leona Woods Marshall who later came to be known as Leona Woods Marshall Libby was an American physicist. She was born on August 9, 1919 in La Grange, Illinois. Her studies culminated with the achievement of a doctoral degree in Molecular Spectroscopy from the University of Chicago after which she was recruited into the famous Enrico Fermi’s team to work on the Manhattan project. The Manhattan project was a research and development undertaking during the Second World War that produced the first…

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    Otto Hahn was a German chemist who discovered fission, fission is the action of dividing or splitting something into two or more parts. When Hahn discovered nuclear fission he unintentionally discovered how to create an atomic bomb. Hahn discovered nuclear fission by having a speed neutron hit a uranium atom, the uranium atom spit. When the speeding neutron hit the nucleus of the uranium atom the atom stretched until it split. Before this, Niels Bohr had a theory that a nucleus must be “like…

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    “Sometimes nothing is the scariest thing of all,” (Hahn, 152). Nothingness plays a significant role in the lives of Ali and her cousin Emma, while they are staying at Gull Cottage in Maine, a place where their mothers visited every summer when they were children. While in Maine, Ali and Emma meet an impudent individual who goes by the name of Sissy, who is determined to make the girls’ stay not one to forget. In Deep And Dark And Dangerous, the novel written by Mary Downing Hahn, the girls…

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    Richard Cory: True vs Apperecur Happiness I was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany. Me and my family are a middle class family and we are Jews. My father is Otto Frank and my mother is Edith Frank and my sister Margot. I go to a wonderful school and have lot of friends. But my father said that we will be moving to Amsterdam in a week which means I will have to make new friends all over again. A week has past and we are all packed ready to go to Amsterdam i said my goodbye to my…

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    Introduction The Book Thief is a Bildungsroman of sorts, dealing with the protagonist, Liesel Meminger. The odd narration by Death supplies it with a sense of ambiguity that no other book seems to emulate. This novel regarding the journey of Liesel Meminger, a nine-year-old German girl who was given up by her mother in 1939, she embarks a new life living with Hans and Rosa Hubermann in the humble town of Molching. Liesel’s journey evokes many mishaps and moments of joy; the book…

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    Miep Gies: A Short Story

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    To illustrate, the Holocaust began in 1933 when Adolf Hitler came to power in Germany. However, it came to an end when the Nazis were defeated by the Allied powers in 1945. This was a very tough and critical time especially for Jewish people. Approximately two-thirds of the Jews living in Europe were killed by the Nazis and about 11 million people were killed in all, six million of these were Jews. These poor people were put in all kinds of different camps, including concentration,…

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