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Fission Theory with Bohr

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1939

John Archibald Wheeler1939

Princeton · Science / Physics

With Niels Bohr, develops a liquid-drop description of fission and neutron-induced uranium reactions.

Names involved

John Archibald Wheeler

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