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Topic Title: WEB RESOURCE: The Discovery of Fission
Topic Summary: Documents the discovery of fission through a variety of media
Created On: 2/16/2007 2:59 PM

 2/16/2007 2:59 PM


Lynne Robinson

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Joined: 2/3/2007

This web site, from the American Institute of Physics, documents the discovery of fission and includes audio files, readings and illustrations from Luis Alvarez, Herbert Anderson, Niels Bohr, Arthur Compton, John Dunning, Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, Otto Frisch, Otto Hahn, Lew Kowarski, Leon Rosenfeld, Ernest Rutherford, Leo Szilard, J. J. Thomson, and John Wheeler.

SOURCE: "The Discovery of Fission." Moments of Discovery. 2003. The American Institute of Physics.

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