Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a private letter from nuclear chemist Otto Hahn. When bombarding uranium with neutrons, ...

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For the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission. Keith Ruffles, CC BY Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an explanation for what he saw that would revolutionize the field ...

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