Radioactive Recoils from Uranium Activated

by Neutrons; from The Physical Review, Vol. 55, No. 5, p. 510 by Edwin M. McMillan

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Lancaster, PA: American Institute of Physics, 1939. First Edition. Offprint, 8vo 267 × 200mm , p. 1, printed on the recto only. Some short marginal tears and old tape stains, else very good. Signed by McMillan. This single-page note, dated February 17, 1939, from Berkeley's Radiation Laboratory, was published within weeks of Hahn and Strassmann's announcement of uranium fission and belongs to the intense, disorienting

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