Based on the results of an experiment in which uranium was bombarded with neutrons, conducted in December 1938 by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Hahn conveyed their results to his former colleague Lise Meitner. Meitner and her nephew, Otto Robert Frisch, correctly interpreted the data and coined the term fission. In April 1939, Joos, after hearing a paper by Wilhelm Hanle, conveyed to the Reichserziehungsministerium the implications of Hahn's experiment and the potential military applications of uranium research.