From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939 ISBN: 9780429147265 Platform/Publisher: Taylor & Francis / CRC Press Digital rights:Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited Subjects: Physical Sciences; Physics; Atomic & Nuclear Physics;
From Nuclear Transmutation to Nuclear Fission, 1932-1939 deals with a particular phase in the early history of nuclear physics: the race among four laboratory teams to be the first to achieve the transmutation of atomic nuclei with artificially accelerated nuclear projectiles (protons) in high-voltage discharge tubes. This volume covers the backgro