Otto Hahn FRS  was a German

Germans

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 chemist

Chemist

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 and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Chemistry

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, a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry

Radiochemistry

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. He is regarded as "the father of nuclear chemistry". Hahn was a courageous opposer of Jewish persecution by the Nazis and after World War II he became a passionate campaigner against the use of nuclear energy as a weapon. He served as the last President of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society (KWG) in 1946 and as the founding President of the Max Planck Society

Max Planck Society

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 (MPG) from 1948 to 1960.