Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht, Holland Boston: Hingham, MA.:
D. Reidel Pub. Co. Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers,
c1983.
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| Series: | The University of Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science ;
v. 22 |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents: 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 R. Weart
- Internal and external conditions for the discovery of fission by the Berlin Team / Fritz Krafft
- Otto Hahn, science, and social responsibility / Lawrence Badash
- The politics of British science in the Munich era / Neil Cameron
- Why Hahnʹs radiothorium surprised Rutherford in Montreal / Thaddeus J. Trenn
- The discovery of uranium Z by Otto Hahn / Ernst Berninger
- Nuclear physics in Canada in the 1930s / B.W. Sargent.