Timeline Saturday 11 February 1939

Events on Saturday 11 February 1939 2

• 1874 – 1939 Franz Schmidt (1874-1939) Died 11 February 1939, aged 64 Schmidt was an Austrian composer, cellist and teacher. He is best known for his four symphonies and the oratorio The Book with Seven Seals. He also played cello in the Vienna Court Opera orchestra under Mahler.
• 1939 Meitner and Frisch explain nuclear fission Uranium splitting is explained and named Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch published a paper in Nature showing that Hahn and Strassmann's experiments had split the uranium nucleus. They calculated the enormous energy released and gave the process the name fission. The discovery made atomic weapons conceivable.