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Why were the American physicists very upset at the discovery of nuclear fission ? |
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Answer» In DECEMBER 1938, over Christmas vacation, physicists Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch made a startling discovery that would immediately revolutionize nuclear physics and lead to the atomic BOMB. Trying to explain a puzzling finding made by nuclear chemist Otto Hahn in BERLIN, Meitner and Frisch realized that something previously thought impossible was ACTUALLY HAPPENING: that a uranium nucleus had split in two. \ |
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