jan 1, 1938 - 1938
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December - Fermi receives the Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of transuranic elements (actually fission of uranium) and departs for the United States.
December 22 - Otto Hahn sends a paper to Lise Meitner containing experimental results that are interpreted by Meitner and nephew Otto Frisch as nuclear fission.
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atomic and nuclear physics
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