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Has the discovery of nuclear fission contributed positively or negatively to the quality of life on earth?
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∙ 13y ago
The discovery of man-made nuclear fission has contributed negatively. The sun has contributed positively. The atomic waste has polluted radiation into streams, oceans, skies, and earth. Radiation causes cancer and death in humans and all creatures. The radioactive waste spread through atomic bombs, atomic energy, and hydrogen bombs have half-lives of billions of years. So parts of earth will be highly radioactive until the end of earth's time in the solar system.
Although we can harvest energy from nuclear fission, the solution to our energy crisis is not to get more energy. It is to use our sources of energy more wisely. for example, the sun is man's god-given source of energy, but do we need to sit in our homes on a nice sunny day under fluorescent lighting, whereas we could sit outside under the natural light of the sun? We already have light, we just need to use it.
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What did Marie Curie and Albert Einstein have in common?
nothing They're overall work; they discovered Atomic Fission.
Who is the world's first scientist in reporting uranium fission powers sunlight?
M.A.Padmanabha Rao,PhD(AIIMS) is the World's first scientist in reporting 235Uranium fission powers Sunlight in the following paper published in 2013: Discovery of Self-Sustained 235-U Fission Causing Sunlight by Padmanabha Rao Effect.
Why did Otto Hahn win The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944?
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 was awarded to Otto Hahn for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
What year did Otto Hahn invent nuclear fission?
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What is the term for splitting a atom?
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When was the discovery of nuclear fission?
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What did Marie Curie and Albert Einstein have in common?
nothing They're overall work; they discovered Atomic Fission.
The discovery of the principle of nuclear fission led to the production of the atomic bomb and the construction of nuclear power plant?
Yes, I think that can be said
What did Otto Hahn discover?
Otto Hahn is famous for his discovery of nuclear fission which he discovered with scientist Fritz Strassmann in 1938. Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery.
Who is the world's first scientist in reporting uranium fission powers sunlight?
M.A.Padmanabha Rao,PhD(AIIMS) is the World's first scientist in reporting 235Uranium fission powers Sunlight in the following paper published in 2013: Discovery of Self-Sustained 235-U Fission Causing Sunlight by Padmanabha Rao Effect.
What did Otto Hahn invent?
He wasn't an inventor, he was a chemist. He is most famous for his discovery of nuclear fission.
What discovery rejects that the idea of the atom is indestructible?
The discovery of the fission reaction proved that the atom is not indestructible. Fission is a process by which an atom is split to to produce two atoms, smaller in size than the original atom. In addition the mass of the system after a standard fission reaction is less than the mass of the system before the reaction, some of the mass having been converted to energy. This indicated that it is possible to completely "destroy" an atom (although it is merely converted to a different form). Fission was first observed in 1938 by Otto Hahn who observed that after bombarding a uranium nucleus with neutrons, the much lighter barium was produced.
Why did Otto Hahn win The Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1944?
The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1944 was awarded to Otto Hahn for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.
What did otto hahn do?
Otto Hahn was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize for his work and the discovery of nuclear fission. He was also a pioneer in the fields of radiochemistry and radioactivity.
What did scientists learn in the 1930's that led to the Manhattan project?
Nuclear fission (splitting the atom) was the fundamental discovery leading to the Manhattan Project. Although Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch are generally credited with the discovery, other physicists that played an important part were Ida Noddack, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman.
What year did Otto Hahn invent nuclear fission?
Otto Hahn did not "invent" nuclear fission. Nuclear fission is a natural process that has been going on for billions of years. He didn't ... exactly ... "discover" it either. What he did do was show that earlier work was incorrect, and determine that certain products of the fission of uranium were not "neighboring" elements as was generally thought at the time, but isotopes of much lighter elements. There wasn't really a specific year he did this, the work was done throughout the late 1930s.
