On March 20, the American Chemical Society’s Division of the History of Chemistry (HIST) presented a 2023 Citation for Chemical Breakthrough Award plaque to the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in ...

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For the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission. Keith Ruffles, CC BY Meitner and Frisch were able to provide an explanation for what he saw that would revolutionize the field ...

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Scientists are aiming to clarify the way the angular momentum (spin) of two fragments, resulting from the splitting of an atomic nucleus, is generated. A series of experiments at the ALTO particle ...

The nuclear age dawned in the wrong place, at the wrong time. In 1938, outside Berlin’s Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Chemistry, Nazis paraded in the streets. Inside, German Chemist Otto Hahn patiently ...

Outdone only by nuclear fusion, the process of nuclear fission releases enormous amounts of energy. The ‘spicy rocks’ that are at the core of both natural and artificial fission reactors are generally ...

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Nuclear fission is a substantial part of the world’s energy mix, but out in the broader universe, fission is much harder to come by. Now, a new study from Los Alamos National Laboratory and North ...