GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

Detailed explanation-1: -Nuclear fission was discovered in December 1938 by chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann and physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Robert Frisch. Fission is a nuclear reaction or radioactive decay process in which the nucleus of an atom splits into two or more smaller, lighter nuclei and often other particles.

Detailed explanation-2: -Otto Hahn (1879 – 1968) was a German chemist and winner of the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his discovery of nuclear fission.

Detailed explanation-3: -Fission, the basis of the atomic bomb, was discovered in Nazi Germany less than a year before the beginning of the Second World War.