The discovery of fission

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, , Citation O R Frisch and J A Wheeler 1968 Phys. Bull. 19 13 DOI 10.1088/0031-9112/19/1/003

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Abstract

The neutron was discovered in 1932. Why, then, did it take seven years before nuclear fission was found? Fission is obviously a striking phenomenon; it results in a large amount of radioactivity of all kinds and produces fragments that have more than ten times the total ionization of anything previously known.

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