Short biography

1904	born on 1. Oktober 1904 in Wien
1922	A-levels at Staatsgymnasium VIII in Vienna
1922-1926	Studies of physics, mathematics and philosophy in Vienna
1926	PhD with Karl Przibram in Vienna
1926-1927	Volontär im Laboratorium für Radio- und Röntgenphysik in Wien
1927-1930	Scholarship of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft at the Physikalisch-Technischen Reichsanstalt with Carl Müller in Berlin
1930-1930	Scholarship holder of the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft with Peter Pringsheim at the Institute of Physics at the University of Berlin
1930-1933	Research assistant with Otto Stern at the Institute for Physical Chemistry in Hamburg dismissed as "non-Aryan" on 31.7.1933
1933	Expulsion from Germany
1933-1934	Work with Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett at Birkbeck College, London
1934-1939	Work with Nils Bohr in Copenhagen
1939-1940	Assistant to Marcus Laurence Elwin Oliphant at the University of Birmingham Calculations together with Rudolf Peierls on the uranium-235 atomic bomb
1940-1943	Research activity in Liverpool
1943-1946	Cooperation in the development of the atomic bomb in Los Alamos
1946-1947	Head of the nuclear physics department of the Atomic Energy Research Establishment in Harwell
1947-1972	"Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy und Fellow" of the Trinity College in Cambridge
1979	died on 22. September 1979 in Cambridge

Further Information

• Fresh Peierls Memorandum

Relatives

• Otto Robert Frisch is the nephew of Liese Meitner

Alternative name spellings

• Otto Robert Frisch
• Otto R. Frisch
• O. R. Frisch
• O. Frisch
• Robert Frisch
• R. Frisch

Publications

(Only the publications from the Hamburg period up to 1933 are included in the overall index of chemistry.)