Enrico Fermi wins the Nobel Prize for Physics for his developments in harnessing nuclear power. Fermi became the first physicist to split the atom. His later research pioneered nuclear power generation.December 1938: Fermi, Nuclear FissionEnrico Fermi wins the Nobel Prize for Physics for his developments in harnessing nuclear power. Fermi became the first physicist to split the atom. His later research pioneered nuclear power generation.
Also in 1938, German physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch succeed in splitting a uranium atom. They name the process "nuclear fission."
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