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...prize for chemistry went to pioneer atom-splitter Professor Otto Hahn, 66, lately of Berlin. Hahn came to the U.S. in 1933 to lecture for one year at Cornell. He is believed to be in the U.S. at the present time, under different circumstances. Where he is now, U.S. scientists cannot say and Government authorities will not say. If he is one of the German scientists imported to the U.S. as "human reparations," it will be the first time a Nobel prize has been awarded to a virtual prisoner of war. When Professor Hahn did his first atom-splitting...
Major Charles Boxer, freed from a Jap prison camp and from his ex-wife in England, sailed for the U.S. and Author Emily Hahn, who told the world in her autobiography (China to Me) that Boxer was the father of her four-year-old daughter. Said he, before leaving Hong Kong: "It would be much better if we were married . . . more convenient when staying at hotels." Said she, in Manhattan: "I think we'll try for one more...
...Emily Hahn, best-selling author (Seductio ad Absurdum, The Soong Sisters), got news in Manhattan about her English friend Major Charles Boxer, whom she described in China to Me as the father of her four-year-old daughter Carola. The ex-Chief of British Military Intelligence in Hong Kong had been found alive and well in a Jap prison camp, said the London Evening News. Said Miss Hahn: "He'll come home and marry me, of course...
Puzzle to Fission. Late in 1938 a distinguished German chemist named Otto Hahn, of Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm-Institute, was bombarding uranium with "slow" neutrons of low energy. As one of the end products, he identified barium. This puzzled him, but he published a diffident note on it in Naturwissenschalfen...
...Hahn had been repeating experiments performed by a onetime colleague, Lise Meitner, a Jewish woman scientist who had fled from Hitler's Reich to Copenhagen. Meitner's own experiments had puzzled her-but when she saw Hahn's report she guessed that the huge uranium atom had been broken into two nearly equal fragments...