The Mechanism of Nuclear Fission

DOI10.1103/PhysRev.56.426zbMath0022.19003OpenAlexW1997020598WikidataQ21709316 ScholiaQ21709316MaRDI QIDQ5775717

N. Bohr, John Archibald Wheeler

Publication date: 1939

Published in: Physical Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrev.56.426

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Relativistic quantum theory

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