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Current Affairs MCQ 222 of 1401 · World Affairs

Nuclear fission was discovered in 1938–39 by:

  1. AEnrico Fermi and Niels Bohr
  2. BOtto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann
  3. CErnest Rutherford and James Chadwick
  4. DJ. Robert Oppenheimer and Edward Teller

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Correct answer: (b) Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann

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Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann discovered fission; Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch explained it. J. Robert Oppenheimer led the Manhattan Project's science.

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