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Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn

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A German chemist who helped discover nuclear fission and won a Nobel Prize
  • proper noun
: Otto Hahn
  • Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nuclear fission.

Examples

  • Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his work on nuclear fission.

  • Many historians credit Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner with making one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century.

  • The laboratory in Berlin where Otto Hahn worked became famous for its groundbreaking research.

  • The scientist Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.

  • Otto Hahn is known for his groundbreaking work in nuclear chemistry.

  • Many historians credit Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner with making one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the 20th century.

  • The scientist Otto Hahn received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944.

Surface Forms

Otto Hahn main

Morphology

Otto + Hahn

This is a referential proper name: knowing the constituent tokens 'Otto' and 'Hahn' (or that they are personal names) does not enable a learner to infer the biographical meaning (a German chemist who co-discovered nuclear fission). Proper names require world knowledge rather than compositional decoding, so the expression is opaque to a B1 learner.

Etymology

Otto Hahn was a German chemist who helped discover that atoms could be split, a big finding called 'nuclear fission' or 'splitting the atom'. That's why his name is remembered today and why he won the Nobel Prize.