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Otto Hahn's grandson visits Hiroshima

HIROSHIMA, Japan - Dietrich Hahn, a 67-year-old journalist and grandson of Otto Hahn, the German chemist who won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of nuclear fission, delivers a speech in Hiroshima on the night of Sept. 30, 2013. Earlier in the day, Hahn met survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of the western Japanese city and offered flowers at the cenotaph for the victims of the attack.

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor receives German peace award

BERLIN, Germany - Former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba (L) receives the 2013 Otto Hahn Peace Medal, a prominent German honor, from the United Nations Association of Germany at a ceremony in Berlin on April 16, 2013, for his ongoing efforts to abolish nuclear weapons,

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Ex-Hiroshima mayor

TOKYO, Japan - File photo shows former Hiroshima Mayor Tadatoshi Akiba. The United Nations Association of Germany said on Nov. 27, 2012, that Akiba will receive the 2013 Otto Hahn Peace Medal, a prominent German honor, for his continued calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons and promotion of peace while he was a mayor.