German physical chemist who provided the first chemical evidence of nuclear fission. Hitler, fortunately, did not grasp the destructive potential of this discovery—there is some evidence that Hahn kept him deliberately in the dark—and Hahn spent the war years doing small experiments on the industrial use of atomic energy.TLS in German, one page, 8.5 x 11.5, personal letterhead, June 17, 1948. Letter to a Professor Breusch. In part, “Thank you for your kind letter dated May 30. Furthermore, I also thank you for enclosing the new magazine “Nucleonics” which interested me very much. There is reasonable hope that we will receive”Nucleonics “ for our library in the near future... I am very pleased that you are flying to Stockholm in July and your plans afterwards to attend the German Physiologist Conference in Frankfurt. If you then travel through Goettingen I do very much hope to see you. Furthermore, I was very interested in Professor Oppenheimer’s article. I might borrow from this article in the “Neuen Zuercher Zeitung” through Professor Deoticke. I completely understand that you have turned down offers from Halle and Berlin. There is a general move to the West of our home country and not the East...” In fine condition, with expected folds and some scattered mild toning. COA John Reznikoff/PSA/DNA and R&R COA.
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