网页Fritz Strassmann (born Feb. 22, 1902, Boppard, Ger.—died April 22, 1980, Mainz, W.Ger.) was a German physical chemist who, with Otto Hahn, discovered neutron-induced nuclear fission in uranium (1938) and thereby opened the field of atomic energy. Strassmann received his Ph.D. from the Technical University in Hannover in 1929.