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1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
6. Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman in 1938 discovered the process of nuclear fission in Germany. This was the experiment that perhaps most directly led to the physics behind the atomic bomb.Soon after, this experiment was repeated with success in the US.9.1k Views. The scientific developments that directly led to the first atomic bomb (fission bomb) was the discovery that you could split an atom in a process called nuclear fission and harness the energy. The main developments that led to fission and the atomic bomb are as follows: