Lise Meitner (helped with the discovery of the element protactinium and nuclear fission)
"Nuclear Fission: Reaction to the Discovery in 1939", Badash et al 1986 (what does it look & feel like to be in the early stages of creating an x-risk?) gwern.net/docs/existentia…
In Our Time, The Manhattan Project: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss how the discovery of nuclear fission in Germany led quickly to the development of the first atom bomb in the USA and its lethal use over Japan. bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001…
The Americans, Germans, Japanese, and Russians all seem to have simultaneously and independently concluded that atomic energy could be weaponized shortly after the discovery of nuclear fission. What exactly about this discovery led to the logical conclusion of atomic weapons?
Discovery of nuclear fission - Today's featured article en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dis…
TIL that In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper. sdsc.edu/ScienceWomen/mei…
In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper. ponderwall.com/index.php/…
In February 1939, Lise Meitner described a groundbreaking nuclear phenomenon in a letter to Nature editor and called it Nuclear Fission. Five years later, a Nobel prize was awarded to Otto Hahn for the discovery of fission; a word he never used in his original paper. ponderwall.com/index.php/…
TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry. britannica.com/biography/…
We have had the discovery of fire and electricity, antibiotics, the Internet, nuclear fission... What new groundbreaking invention will be the next to change the world as we know it?
Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission along with Otto Hahn--however, she was never awarded the Nobel Prize like Hahn was. How much did she contribute towards the discovery and why was she not awarded the prize?
TIL even though Lise Meitner co-discovered nuclear fission of uranium, she did not receive the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for that discovery. Only her associate did. In the 1990s the decision was called 'unjust by many scientists and she has several posthumous awards since then. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
How did the pioneers of nuclear science in the 1930s detect different elements during their discovery of fission?
I'm reading about Dr. Otto Hahn's , Dr. Lise Meitner's and Dr. Fritz Strassman's experiment where they discovered fission when they bombarded uranium with neutrons. They confirmed their hypothesis when they detected barium and krypton, the byproducts of splitting uranium.
There are so many amazing things about this experiment but one has me absolutely puzzled: How does one detect specific elements with 1938 technology?
[WP] Humans have made a scientific breakthrough to rival the discovery of nuclear fission: a device capable of ignoring the laws of thermodynamics and creating matter from nothing. One minor issue. It can only produce bears.
Born today : March 8th - Otto Hahn, PhD, Chemist, Nobel Laureate, "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei", "regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all times and especially as 'the father of nuclear chemistry'." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott…
Born today : March 8th - Otto Hahn, PhD, Chemist, Nobel Laureate, "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei", "regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all times and especially as 'the father of nuclear chemistry'." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott…
Born today : March 8th - Otto Hahn, PhD, Chemist, Nobel Laureate, "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei", "regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all times and especially as 'the father of nuclear chemistry'." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott…
Before the discovery of nuclear fission, uranium's only use was as a colorant, radioactivity having a vague health-benefit spin in that day.
Born today : March 8th - Otto Hahn, PhD, Chemist, Nobel Laureate, "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei", "regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all times and especially as 'the father of nuclear chemistry'." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott…
Born today : March 8th - Otto Hahn, PhD, Chemist, Nobel Laureate, "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei", "regarded as one of the most significant chemists of all times and especially as 'the father of nuclear chemistry'." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ott…
A shocking discovery at Fukushima was that zirconium (used as a "transparent" - allowing passage of neutrons - protective cladding around the fuel rods) when superheated can become a catalyst for an esoteric type of nuclear fission. rense.com/general94/whyf.…
Physicist Lise Meitner, key to the discovery of nuclear fission, overcame WWII racial persecution, gender inequality and political exile; overlooked for Nobel prize en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lis…
TIL About Lise Meitner, a woman who described a groundbreaking phenomenon called nuclear fission in a letter to Nature Editor, she was ignored because she was Jewish and five years later Otto Hahn won a Nobel prize for the same discovery. ponderwall.com/index.php/…
[todayilearned] TIL: Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist, discovered that atomic nuclei can be split in half. She and her nephew explained and named nuclear fission in 1939, but the recognition went to Otto Hahn for this discovery. He was granted a Nobel Prize in 1944 in Chemistry. britannica.com/biography/…
TIL about the OKLO-reactor in Gabon, Africa which is one of the most intriguing geological formations found on planet Earth. Here, naturally occurring fissile materials in two billion year-old rocks have sustained a slow nuclear fission reaction like that found in a modern nuclear reactor. iaea.org/newscenter/news/…
is there a way of catalyzing nuclear fission reactions?
"Sir, we have technology of nuclear fusion and fission, but we still don't know wtf a uranium is."
Im a proud father of a 15x15x15 Nuclear fission reactor
After finishing two orbits around Kerbin, the crew retracts their research cabin and prepares the dual interstellar engines for jump/cruise to Duna under the power of nuclear fission! v.redd.it/wfzm5mss2qo71
@AP: If you have an idea on how to put a nuclear fission power plant on the moon, the U.S. government wants to hear about it. NASA has partnered with the Department of Energy’s Idaho National Laboratory to establish a sun-independent power source. https://t.co/FpQ2J1u7VP mobile.twitter.com/AP/sta…
Nuclear fission of uranium-235. Also shows production of plutonium-239.
Nuclear Fission Reactions Are Happening at Chernobyl Again - A melted amalgam of nuclear fuel at Chernobyl is beginning to react. The issue is rainwater, which has activated materials buried deep within the closed plant popularmechanics.com/scie…
TIL that the earth can create natural nuclear fission reactors under its crust. The only one we currently know of is located in Gabon, Africa. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nat…
The usage of nuclear weapons made low-background steel (steel made before nuclear weapons) more valuable for certain applications. Would this have still happened if humans had never developed nuclear fission, but had instead tested pure fusion weapons?
