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(MEITNER, LISE; et al.) Nature . . . Volume 143. liv, 1080, iii-vi pages. 4to, 257x185 mm, remboîtage of 19th-century 1/2 sheep covers with 20th-century calf spine, cover corners worn; contents clean. Admiralty Library stamp dated 12 June 1939 on title and elsewhere in volume. London, 7 January-24 June 1939
This volume contains the first appearance of three important contributions toward the development of the Atomic Bomb: Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: A New Type of Nuclear Reaction, co-written by Meitner and Otto Frisch, (pages 239-40); Physical Evidence for the Division of Heavy Nuclei under Neutron Bombardment, by Frisch (page 276); and Liberation of Neutrons in the Nuclear Explosion of Uranium, co-written by Hans von Halban, Frederic Joliot, and Lew Kowarski (pages 470-71). The discovery and understanding of nuclear fission made possible the first nuclear chain reaction produced by Enrico Fermi and his collaborators in 1942. PMM 422b-c-d.
