Nuclear fission (Bohr-Wheeler)

Layer 1 — Physicsin the nuclear-physics subtree

Bohr-Wheeler 1939: fission proceeds through saddle-point shape; activation energy ~6 MeV for U-235; basis of nuclear-power + weapons design; Hahn-Strassmann 1938 chemistry.

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