(1) MEITNER & FRISCH, ‘Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction,’ pp. 239-240, in Vol. 143, No. 3615, 11 February 1939 [PMM 422b]; (2) FRISCH, ‘Physical Evidence for the Division of Heavy Nuclei under Neutron Bombardment,’ p. 276, in No. 3616, 18 February [PMM 422c]; (3) BOHR, ‘Disintegration of Heavy Nuclei,’ p. 330, in No. 3617, 25 February; (4) HALBAN, JOLIOT & KOWARSKI, ‘Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium,’ pp. 470-471 [PMM 422d], with MEITNER & FRISCH, ‘Products of the Fission of the Uranium Nucleus,’ pp. 471-472, both in No. 3620, 18 March;(5) HALBAN, JOLIOT & KOWARSKI, ‘Number of Neutrons Liberated in the Nuclear Fission of Uranium,’ p. 680, in No. 3625, 22 April; (6) ADLER & HALBAN, ‘Nuclear Physics: Control of the Chain Reaction Involved in Fission of the Uranium Nucleus,’ pp. 793-794, in No. 3628, 13 May; (7) FEATHER, ‘Fission of Heavy Nuclei: a New Type of Nuclear Disintegration,’ pp. 877-879, in No. 3630, 27 May; (8) HALBAN, JOLIOT & KOWARSKI, ‘Energy of Neutrons Liberated in the Nuclear Fission of Uranium Induced by Thermal Neutrons,’ p. 939, in No. 3631, 3 June 1939.
London: Macmillan, 1939. First edition, rare, journal issues in the original printed wrappers, of the complete sequence of papers in Nature by which nuclear fission was reported, theoretically interpreted, experimentally verified, and shown to liberate enough secondary neutrons to sustain a chain reaction—the sequence that, between 11 February and 3..... More
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