Otto Robert Frisch FRS (1 October 1904, Vienna – 22 September 1979), Austrian-British physicist. With his German collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.
Read more about Otto Robert Frisch: Overview, Retirement
Famous quotes containing the words otto and/or frisch:
“Indecision is a virus that can run through an army and destroy its will to win or even to survive.”
—Wendell Mayes, U.S. screenwriter. Otto Preminger. CINCPAC II (Henry Fonda)
“Technology as the knack of eliminating the world as resistance,... the technologist’s worldlessness.... My mistake lay in the fact that we technologists try to live without death.”
—Max Frisch (1911–1991)