TY - BOOK AU - Shea,William R TI - Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics PY - 1983/// CY - Dordrecht PB - D. Reidel Publishing Company KW - Nuclear physics KW - History KW - Addresses, essays, lectures KW - Physicists KW - Germany KW - Biography N1 - 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 ER -