Best Historical Novels About Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn

1879–1968

Otto Hahn was a German chemist associated with the discovery of nuclear fission. His scientific work became central to twentieth-century nuclear physics and to the wartime and post-war history of atomic research.

Hahn was a German chemist whose research with Fritz Strassmann produced the experimental evidence for nuclear fission in 1938, interpreted theoretically by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. After the Second World War he became a leading figure in West German science and publicly opposed nuclear armament.

Rory Clements’ Nucleus places Otto Hahn within the international scientific world transformed by the discovery of nuclear fission. As Cambridge investigator Tom Wilde confronts espionage in 1939, Hahn’s work in Germany helps make atomic research a strategic issue: scientific papers, personal contacts and laboratory knowledge suddenly have military implications for governments preparing for war.

Historical novels and book series featuring Otto Hahn (1 series)

Tom Wilde in Order

by Rory Clements 8 books 4.3(42,038)

The Tom Wilde series follows an American-born Cambridge history professor drawn into British and Allied intelligence work from the crises of 1936 through the Second World War and the early Cold War. The novels combine espionage with political extremism, scientific research, royal scandal, propaganda and contested wartime memory.…