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20th Century: Nuclear Fission In 1938, two teams independently advanced the understanding of nuclear fission: Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn in Germany, and Enrico Fermi in the United States.

of which more than 200 Nobel Prize winners have been members, including Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Linus Pauling, Francis Crick and James Watson.