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Atomic age began 75 years ago with the first controlled nuclear chain reaction

  • Written by Artemis Spyrou, Associate Professor of Nuclear Astrophysics, Michigan State University
imageFor the first time, human beings harnessed the power of atomic fission.Keith Ruffles, CC BY

Over Christmas vacation in 1938, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch received puzzling scientific news in a private letter from nuclear chemist Otto Hahn. When bombarding uranium with neutrons, Hahn had made some surprising observations that went against...

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