The mechanism of nuclear fission. Offprint from Physical Review, Vol. 56, No. 5, September 1, 1939.
American Physical Society: Lancaster, PA, 1939. First edition, extremely rare offprint, of this seminal paper, which presents the first comprehensive theory of nuclear fission, discovered just six months earlier by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann. This theory was essential for the development of the atomic bomb. “The theory of Bohr..... More
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