page_title: Otto Robert Frisch
section_title: Retirement
hierarchical_section_title: Otto Robert Frisch / Retirement
caption_attribution_description: English: University of Birmingham - Poynting Physics Building - blue plaque to physicists Frisch and Peierls
context_page_description: Otto Robert Frisch FRS was an Austrian-born British physicist who worked on nuclear physics. With Lise Meitner he advanced the first theoretical explanation of nuclear fission and first experimentally detected the fission by-products. Later, with his collaborator Rudolf Peierls he designed the first theoretical mechanism for the detonation of an atomic bomb in 1940.
context_section_description: He retired from the chair in 1972 as required by University regulations. He died on 22 September 1979 and was cremated on 5 October at Cambridge City Crematorium. His son, Tony Frisch, is also a physicist.
caption: University of Birmingham - Poynting Physics Building - blue plaque
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