Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics / edited by William R. Shea - Dordrecht : D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983 - 252 p. : 23 cm - The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science v. 22 .

Includes bibliographical references and index

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 Hahn's 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

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