An unexpected finding

  • discovery of the artificial transmutation of uranium

  • uranium with an atomic number 94 had the most protons of any element

  • investigation of neutron induced uranium decay

  • Hahn was sure of chemical evidence of transurances

  • political situation was dangerous for Meitner

  • explanation of uranium´s forced transformation

  • Meitner wrote to Hahn about the splitting of Ba

  • Hahn was awarded the nobel prize in chemistry

  • Meitner died