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    Kaiser Wilhelm Society was an umbrella organisation for many institutes, testing stations, and research units created under its authority. The Kaiser...
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    Otto Hahn (category Nobel laureates in Chemistry)
    Cross (2nd Class) for his part in the First Battle of Ypres. After the war he became the head of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, while remaining...
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    Lise Meitner (category Academic staff of the KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
    responsible for the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission. While working on radioactivity at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Chemistry in Berlin...
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    was created as the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in 1911 in Berlin. In 2016 research at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz aims at...
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    physicists Otto Hahn – Director of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für Chemie (KWIC, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, after World War II the Max Planck...
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    Discovery of nuclear fission (category Nuclear chemistry)
    1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission. Hahn and Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin bombarded...
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    chemistry. Strassmann's doctoral advisor was Professor Hermann Braune. Subsequently, Strassmann received a partial scholarship to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute...
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  • Josef Mattauch (category Max Planck Institute directors)
    weights. Much of his career was spent at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry (later the Max Planck Institute). He developed the Mattauch isobar rule...
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    University of Kiel. He received his diploma from the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry in Berlin for work on radioactive compounds under Otto Hahn and...
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    from Germany, he was appointed director of the Physics Institute of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research (KWImF) in Heidelberg. There, he built...
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