Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics
By: edited by William R. Shea.
Contributors: Shea, William R.
Series: The University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science ;; v. 22
Publisher: D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers
Published: 1983
Place of publication: Dordrecht, Holland; Boston; Hingham, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
Subjects: Hahn, Otto, 1879-1968.; Nuclear physics -- History.; Nuclear physicists -- Germany -- Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / William R. Shea; title: The nuclear electron hypothesis / Roger H. Stuewer; title: The evolution of matter / Robert H. Kargon; title: The discovery of fission and a nuclear physics paradigm / Spencer R. Weart; title: Internal and external conditions for the discovery of fission by the Berlin Team / Fritz Krafft; title: Otto Hahn, science, and social responsibility / Lawrence Badash; title: The politics of British science in the Munich era / Neil Cameron; title: Why Hahn's radiothorium surprised Rutherford in Montreal / Thaddeus J. Trenn; title: The discovery of uranium Z by Otto Hahn / Ernst Berninger; title: Nuclear physics in Canada in the 1930s / B.W. Sargent.