[frish; Ger., Norw. frish] 
| 1. | Karl von [kahrl von; Ger. kahrl fuh n] , 1886–1982, Austrian zoologist: Nobel prize for physiology 1973. |
| 2. | Max (Ru⋅dolf) [maks roo-dolf; Ger. mahks roo-dawlf] , 1911–91, Swiss novelist and playwright. |
| 3. | Ot⋅to Ro⋅bert [ot-oh rob-ert; Ger. awt-oh roh-buhrt] , 1904–1979, Austrian physicist. |
| 4. | Rag⋅nar [rahng-nahr] , 1895–1973, Norwegian economist: Nobel prize 1969. |
| otto robert frisch | |
noun | |
| British physicist (born in Austria) who with Lise Meitner recognized that Otto Hahn had produced a new kind of nuclear reaction which they named nuclear fission; Frisch described the explosive potential of a chain nuclear reaction (1904-1979) [syn: Frisch] |