While the war was on, no man in all Germany worried the Allies more. Last spring, British-American intelligence combat teams went into collapsing Germany to get him and find out what he knew about the development of atomic explosives. They caught him at Tailfingen, and spirited him away.
Around the world, scientists wondered what had happened to Dr. Otto Hahn, 66-year-old head of the chemistry department of Kaiser Wilhelm Institute and the man who first smashed the uranium atom. At least one U.S. university (Chicago) wanted to offer the German scientist a...
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