In 1938, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann found one strange element in uranium residue and accidentally opened the atomic age

In 1938, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann made a groundbreaking discovery. Their experiments with uranium ...
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Fission 3.0 Intersects Off-Scale Mineralization in the First Follow Up Hole at PLN A1 Discovery

Drill hole PLN22-036, located 630 m SE of discovery hole, PLN22-035, targeted the A1 conductor. An 8.5 m intersection of a graphite and sulphide rich deformation zone (355.3 m to 363.8 m) corresponds ...
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Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics / edited by William R. Shea

Introduction / William R. Shea -- The nuclear electron hypothesis / Roger H. Stuewer -- The evolution of matter / Robert H. Kargon -- The discovery of fission and a nuclear physics paradigm / Spencer ...
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The defining years in nuclear physics, 1932-1960s / M. Mladjenivic

Pt. 1. From the discovery of the neutron to nuclear fission. The state of nuclear physics in 193l -- Discovery of the neutron -- Discovery of the positron and artificial radioactivity -- Radioactivity ...
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Successful experiments at GSI/FAIR uncover new island of asymmetric fission

An international team of scientists has identified an unexpected region of heavy, neutron-deficient isotopes in the nuclear chart where nuclear fission is predominantly governed by an asymmetric mode.