fritz strassmann hahn (23 risultati)

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. HAHN, Otto. "Die Transmutationder chemischen Elemente, ein Kapital physikalischer und chemische Zusammenarbeit" in "Die Naturwissenschaften", Berlin, Springer, vol 30, 24 April 1942, pp 245-250 in the weekly issue of pp 245-268. This is an extract of the complete weekly issue, complete with its original wrappers. GOOD copy. {[++] Also in this issue: Fritz Strassmann and Otto Hahn, "Uber die Isolierung und einige Eigenschaftendes element 94", pp 256-260.

(22 x 15,5 cm). VIII, 776 S. Mit 332 Abbildungen. Halbleinwandband der Zeit. Erste Ausgabe. - "Es werden die bei der Bestrahlung von Thorium mit langsamen und schnellen Neutronen auftretenden Prozesse untersucht. Es zeigte sich, daß vier Umwandlungsreihen auftreten. Die eine Reihe wird durch einen Anlagerungsprozeß ausgelöst, die drei anderen entstehen durch alpha-Strahlenabspaltung und stellen drei isomere Reihen dar" (Zusammenfassung). - "The compound nucleus would have interested Meitner in any case: its quantized vibrations were expected to account for gamma emission spectra, a field of interest to Meitner since the early 1920s. In a 1938 publication (the offered item) on the products of the neutron irradiation of thorium. Meitner concluded that no satisfactory theory existed for multiple inherited isomerism" (Sime, Lise Meitner S. 455). - Stempel auf Titel. Einband gering bestoßen und unteres Kapital leicht beschädigt, sonst gut erhalten.

Soft cover. Condizione: Good. HAHN, Otto and STRASSMANN, Fritz. "Uber den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle" ("On the detection and characteristics of the alkaline earth metals formed by neutron irradiation of uranium.") In: Die Naturwissenschaften, vol. 27. 1939, 1 January, first issue of the new year. Berlin, J. Springer, 1939. 27x20cm. "In 1938 Hahn and Strassmann had demonstrated the presence of radioactive barium, lanthanum and cerium among the products of neutron bombardment of uranium, an observation that seemed to contradict all previous experiences of nuclear physics. The two men announced their puzzling findings in a paper, 'Ueber den Nachweis und das Verhalten.', published in 'Naturwissenschaften' on 6 January 1939" --(Norman Catalog).  See also PMM 422 (b) [++] The papers include: "Uber den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle , pp11-15. (AND) "Nachweis der Entstehung aktiver Bariumisotope aus Uran und Thorium durch Neutronenbestrahlung; Nachweis weiterer aktiver Bruchstücke bei der Uranspaltung, pp89-95. (AND)"Uber die Bruchstücke beim Zerplatzen des Urans" 163-164. (AND) "Zur Frage nach der Existenz der Trans-Urane, pp451-453. (AND) "Weitere Spaltprodukte aus der Bestrahlung des Urans mit Neutronen", pp529-534. (AND) "Uber einige Bruchstücke beim Zerplatzen des Thoriums" 544-547 (with S. Flugge). All are disbound from a larger bound volume and are in nice condition, offered in the full weekly issue. [++] The 1939 paper by Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, published in Naturwissenschaften, is one of the most historically significant scientific papers of the 20th century reporting on the discovery of nuclear fission. Hahn and Strassmann had been bombarding uranium (U) with neutrons, expecting to produce elements heavier than uranium (transuranic elements). Instead, their chemical analysis revealed the presence of barium (Ba) an element with about half the atomic mass of uranium.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Hahn, Otto and Strassmann, Fritz. **6 papers in one volume on the discovery of nuclear fission** "Uber den Nachweis und das Verhalten her bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle" pp 11-15; "Nachweis weiterer aktiver Bruchstücke bei der Uranspaltung" pp 89-95; "Uber die Bruchstüke beim Zerplatzen des Urans" pp 163-4; "Zur Frage nach der Existenz der Trans-Urane" pp 451-3; "Weitere Spaltprodukte aus der Bestrahlung des Urans mit Neutronen" pp 529-535; "Ubereinige Bruchstucke beim Zerplatzen des Thoriums" pp 544-7. All in "Die Naturwissenschaften" 1939, Berlin, Springer, volume 27 (complete), 862,xviiipp. Cloth-backed marbled boards, with a paper label homemade cover and spine label. Very sturdy, VERY GOOD copy. [++] "The radiochemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann were bombarding elements with neutrons in their Berlin laboratory when they made an unexpected discovery. They found that while the nuclei of most elements changed somewhat during neutron bombardment, uranium nuclei changed greatly and broke into two roughly equal pieces. They split and became not the new transuranic elements that some thought Fermi had discovered but radioactive barium isotopes (barium has the atomic number 56) and fragments of the uranium itself. The substances Fermi had created in his experiments, that is, did more than resemble lighter elements; they were lighter elements. Importantly, the products of the Hahn-Strassmann experiment weighed less than that of the original uranium nucleus, and herein lay the primary significance of their findings. For it followed from Einstein's equation that the loss of mass resulting from the splitting process must have been converted into energy in the form of kinetic energy that could in turn be converted into heat. Calculations made by Hahn's former colleague, Lise Meitner, a refugee from Nazism then staying in Sweden, and her nephew, Otto Frisch, led to the conclusion that so much energy had been released that a previously undiscovered kind of process was at work. Frisch, borrowing the term for cell division in biology-binary fission-named the process fission.8 For his part, Fermi had produced fission in 1934 but had not recognized it."--The Atomic Archive. The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb Part I: Physics Background, 1919-1939, The Discovery of Fission: Hahn and Strassmann. [++] "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.In December 1938, Hahn and Strassmann, continuing their experiments bombarding uranium with neutrons, found what appeared to be isotopes of barium among the decay products. They couldn't explain it, since it was thought that a tiny neutron couldn't possibly cause the nucleus to crack in two to produce much lighter elements. Hahn sent a letter to Meitner describing the puzzling finding.Over the Christmas holiday, Meitner had a visit from her nephew, Otto Frisch, a physicist who worked in Copenhagen at Niels Bohr's institute. Meitner shared Hahn's letter with Frisch. They knew that Hahn was a good chemist and had not made a mistake, but the results didn't make sense. They went for a walk in the snow to talk about the matter, Frisch on skis, Meitner keeping up on foot. They stopped at a tree stump to do some calculations. Meitner suggested they view the nucleus like a liquid drop, following a model that had been proposed earlier by the Russian physicist George Gamow and then further promoted by Bohr. Frisch, who was better at visualizing things.[Contact me for full description--ran out of space.].

20 S. 4°, Brosch. in Hardcover-Decke, innen mit Buntpapierbezug. Einband hinten leicht berieben, unten gr. Fehlstelle. Papier gebräunt und lichtrandig. Insgesamt noch guter Zustand. Bibliotheksexemplar Stempel und Signatur im Titel. 1000 gr.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. First Complete Account of Nuclear Fission Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, "Uber das Zerplatzen des Urankerns durch langsame Neutronen", offprint from: "Abhandlungen der Pressischen Akademie der Wissenschaften", 1939, No. 12. 20pp. Original wrappers. Near-fine copy, housed in a newly made calf clamshell box. Lovely production. [++] "Friedrich Wilhelm Strassmann (1902-1980) .with Otto Hahn (1879-1968) in December 1938 identified the element barium as a product of the bombardment of uranium with neutrons. Their observation was the key piece of evidence necessary to identify the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission, as was subsequently recognized and published by Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch."--Wikipedia. Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry in 1944 for his work on fission ("for his discovery of the fission of heavy atomic nuclei"). Hahn the fifth Nobelist to be incarcerated at the time of their award--the other four were recipients of the NP for peace. The greater trivia question answer in Hahn is that he was incarcerated at the time with TWO other Nobelists (von Laue and Heisenberg) at the same time, at (big clue) Farm HAll. [++] "In 1938, after hearing of a report that neutron bombardment had resulted in a new radioactive element with a 3½ hour half-life, German chemists Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann conducted experiments that created a participate they believed contained radium isotopes, and reported this in late 1938. In December, they discovered that there was in fact no radium present in the precipitate. What they had thought was radium was in fact a radioactive isotope of barium, a medium-weight element. The presence of radioactive barium rather than radium meant that uranium must have been split into two nearly equal fragments. They had no idea how this had happened, but were certain of their finding and communicated their discovery to the German publication "Die Naturwissenschaften." Later the same year, Hahn and Strassmann published the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission."--David Wenner, History of Physics Collection.

Softcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Two offprints. Quartos. The first and third of Hahn and Strassmann's three important papers on nuclear fission (the bursting of the uranium nucleus by slow neutrons), from the series: Abhandlungen der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, (1939, No. 12; and 1944, No. 12). Both copies are in the original printed wrappers, in near fine condition with light toning at the edges. Both papers give a comprehensive account of their discovery of "the fission of uranium and thorium in medium heavy atomic nuclei". Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. An attractive pair of scarce offprints in the original, bright wrappers.

Hardcover. First edition. DIBNER 168: NUCLEAR FISSION - THE TRUE OFFPRINT ISSUES. First edition, the true offprint issues, i.e., in orange wrappers, of the three fundamental papers on nuclear fission which eventually lead to the creation of the atom bomb. ??experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassman [sic] were reported to Lise Meitner, an Austrian scientist who had fled to Copenhagen to escape religious persecution. She and her nephew, O. R. Frisch, working in Niels Bohr?s laboratory, found the true explanation of these phenomena. The interpolation of a neutron into the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200,000,000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term ?fission? to describe it? (PMM). ?Hahn and Strassmann published this article [i.e. the 1939 paper] that started scientists down the path to the atomic bomb. Originally working with Lise Meitner who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, they had been working with uranium and bombarding samples with slow neutrons. They realized that this caused the uranium atoms to split into lighter nuclei and releasing large amounts of energy, and the implications were not lost to a world at war? (Dibner). Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ?for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.? Hahn and Meitner worked together at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute (KWI) of Chemistry in Berlin from 1912, discovering the new element protactinium in 1918; Strassmann joined them there in 1929 and G?tte in 1935. When, after the First World War, limitations for women in the academic world were lifted, Meitner became professor at the KWI; Hahn became its director in 1928. ?In 1934 [Enrico] Fermi roused the world of radioactivity with his method of neutron bombardment and that same year reported on the possible production of transuranic elements by irradiating uranium with neutrons. The irradiation had led to radioactive substances with different half-lives such as 10s, 40s, 13min, and 90min. Fermi?s group had separated the 13-min and 90-min ?bodies? chemically from uranium and had shown that they were not isotopes of elements, which are located only a few places below uranium in the Periodic Table ? they assumed that the uranium nucleus with the extra neutron transformed, via beta decay, into a nucleus of an element with the number 93 in the Periodic Table. That could still be unstable and transit, by another beta decay, into a nucleus of element 94. ?The idea of more than 92 elements was, of course, contested. Ida Noddack, a renowned chemist and co-discoverer of the element rhenium, pointed out that all known elements had to be excluded before new ones were proposed. This very sound advice was not taken. Nuclear physicists saw no possibility for a nucleus to fragment into large pieces. Nothing more drastic than alpha decay had ever been observed. Another way out was also proposed: in spite of Fermi?s interpretation, his 13-min body might be an isotope of protactinium, element number 91. Here Hahn and [Lisa] Meitner came in. After all, they were discoverers of protactinium and knew the properties of this element. They were able to show that the activity in question was not due to protactinium and became convinced that transuranic elements had been produced. They began intensive work in this new field, from 1935 onwards together with Strassmann ? Quite a number of substances with different half-lives and different chemical properties were found in uranium irradiated with neutrons. A detailed scheme for their production was proposed, which implied the creation and subsequent decay of four, possibly five, transuranic elements. It was not seriously challenged by other groups working in the field. ?When Austria was annexed in 1938, Lise Meitner became a German citizen and, because of her Jewish descent, was in acute danger. Helped by Hahn and other colleagues, she fled via Holland and Denmark to Sweden, where she could work in the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. ?Hahn and Strassmann continued alone. The decay products of the apparent transuranic elements seemed to contain three substances, which underwent beta decays of different half-lives and were chemically very similar to barium. They were taken to be isomeric nuclei of the isotope Ra231 of radium. Radium is an alkaline-earth metal as is barium and is located below barium in the second column of the Periodic Table, hence the similarity. Hahn and Strassmann tried to isolate the radium. Since only minute quantities could have been produced, a precipitation with barium as carrier from a solution was performed; the barium was to carry along the chemically similar radium. The precipitate then only contained barium and radium, which were to be separated in the next step. As mentioned above, Hahn was well versed in the method of separation, fractional crystallization, originally introduced by Marie Curie. But although they tried hard and checked and rechecked their method, Hahn and Strassmann were unable to separate any radium by chemical means. In their first paper they still conclude rather cautiously: ?We come to the conclusion: Our ?radium isotopes? have the properties of barium; as chemists we should rather say the new bodies are not radium but barium. [. . . ] As ?nuclear chemists?, in a certain sense close to nuclear physics, we cannot yet decide ourselves to perform this step contradicting all previous experience of nuclear physics. A series of strange coincidences might still have faked our results.? ?Hahn had kept Meitner informed by letter about the work and he mailed her a copy of the manuscript of the paper on 21 December 1938, the same day it was submitted to Die Naturwissenschaften. The manuscript reached her in a small town near Gothenburg, where she had gone to visit Swedish friends over Christmas and where she had a.

Hardcover. First edition. NUCLEAR FISSION. First edition, offprint issues, of the three fundamental papers on nuclear fission which eventually lead to the creation of the atom bomb. ??experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassman [sic] were reported to Lise Meitner, an Austrian scientist who had fled to Copenhagen to escape religious persecution. She and her nephew, O. R. Frisch, working in Niels Bohr?s laboratory, found the true explanation of these phenomena. The interpolation of a neutron into the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200,000,000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term ?fission? to describe it? (PMM). ?Hahn and Strassmann published this article [i.e. the 1939 paper] that started scientists down the path to the atomic bomb. Originally working with Lise Meitner who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, they had been working with uranium and bombarding samples with slow neutrons. They realized that this caused the uranium atoms to split into lighter nuclei and releasing large amounts of energy, and the implications were not lost to a world at war? (Dibner). Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ?for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.? Hahn and Meitner worked together at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute (KWI) of Chemistry in Berlin from 1912, discovering the new element protactinium in 1918; Strassmann joined them there in 1929 and G?tte in 1935. When, after the First World War, limitations for women in the academic world were lifted, Meitner became professor at the KWI; Hahn became its director in 1928. ?In 1934 [Enrico] Fermi roused the world of radioactivity with his method of neutron bombardment and that same year reported on the possible production of transuranic elements by irradiating uranium with neutrons. The irradiation had led to radioactive substances with different half-lives such as 10s, 40s, 13min, and 90min. Fermi?s group had separated the 13-min and 90-min ?bodies? chemically from uranium and had shown that they were not isotopes of elements, which are located only a few places below uranium in the Periodic Table ? they assumed that the uranium nucleus with the extra neutron transformed, via beta decay, into a nucleus of an element with the number 93 in the Periodic Table. That could still be unstable and transit, by another beta decay, into a nucleus of element 94. ?The idea of more than 92 elements was, of course, contested. Ida Noddack, a renowned chemist and co-discoverer of the element rhenium, pointed out that all known elements had to be excluded before new ones were proposed. This very sound advice was not taken. Nuclear physicists saw no possibility for a nucleus to fragment into large pieces. Nothing more drastic than alpha decay had ever been observed. Another way out was also proposed: in spite of Fermi?s interpretation, his 13-min body might be an isotope of protactinium, element number 91. Here Hahn and [Lisa] Meitner came in. After all, they were discoverers of protactinium and knew the properties of this element. They were able to show that the activity in question was not due to protactinium and became convinced that transuranic elements had been produced. They began intensive work in this new field, from 1935 onwards together with Strassmann ? Quite a number of substances with different half-lives and different chemical properties were found in uranium irradiated with neutrons. A detailed scheme for their production was proposed, which implied the creation and subsequent decay of four, possibly five, transuranic elements. It was not seriously challenged by other groups working in the field. ?When Austria was annexed in 1938, Lise Meitner became a German citizen and, because of her Jewish descent, was in acute danger. Helped by Hahn and other colleagues, she fled via Holland and Denmark to Sweden, where she could work in the Physical Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Stockholm. ?Hahn and Strassmann continued alone. The decay products of the apparent transuranic elements seemed to contain three substances, which underwent beta decays of different half-lives and were chemically very similar to barium. They were taken to be isomeric nuclei of the isotope Ra231 of radium. Radium is an alkaline-earth metal as is barium and is located below barium in the second column of the Periodic Table, hence the similarity. Hahn and Strassmann tried to isolate the radium. Since only minute quantities could have been produced, a precipitation with barium as carrier from a solution was performed; the barium was to carry along the chemically similar radium. The precipitate then only contained barium and radium, which were to be separated in the next step. As mentioned above, Hahn was well versed in the method of separation, fractional crystallization, originally introduced by Marie Curie. But although they tried hard and checked and rechecked their method, Hahn and Strassmann were unable to separate any radium by chemical means. In their first paper they still conclude rather cautiously: ?We come to the conclusion: Our ?radium isotopes? have the properties of barium; as chemists we should rather say the new bodies are not radium but barium. [. . . ] As ?nuclear chemists?, in a certain sense close to nuclear physics, we cannot yet decide ourselves to perform this step contradicting all previous experience of nuclear physics. A series of strange coincidences might still have faked our results.? ?Hahn had kept Meitner informed by letter about the work and he mailed her a copy of the manuscript of the paper on 21 December 1938, the same day it was submitted to Die Naturwissenschaften. The manuscript reached her in a small town near Gothenburg, where she had gone to visit Swedish friends over Christmas and where she had also invited her nephew Otto Frisch. We have already met him as collaborato.

(27,5 x 19,5 cm). XV, 728 S. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen, 13 Tafeln und 1 Porträt. Halblederband der Zeit. Erste Ausgabe der im Jahr der Entdeckung der Kernspaltung entstandenen Arbeit. - Stempel auf Vorsatz und Titel. Einband leicht bestoßen, sonst gut erhalten.

(29,5 x 21 cm). 20 S. Mit 4 Abbildungen. Original-Broschur. (Sonderdruck aus: Abh. der Preuß. Akad. der Wiss.). Erste Ausgabe. - "The first of Hahn and Strassmann's three fundamental papers on nuclear fission, containing the first comprehensive account of the phenomenon. (The remaining two papers. were published in 1942 and 1944 respectively). In 1938 Hahn and Strassmann had demonstrated the presence of radioactive barium, lanthanum and cesium among the products of neutron bombardment of uranium, an observation that seemed to contradict all previous experiences of nuclear physics. The two men announced their puzzling findings in a paper, "Ueber den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle" published in 'Naturwissenschaften' on 6 January 1939" (Norman). - Umschlag stellenweise etwas berieben und leicht ausgebleicht, sonst sauber und gut erhalten. - DSB 6, 14; Norman 963; Gerlach 194.

Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. HAHN, Otto and Fritz Strassmann. "Uber Einige weitre Produckte der Uranspaltung" ("On Some Other Products of Uranium Fission") in "Naturwissenschaften", vol 28 no. 34, 23 August 1940, with the Hahn on pp 543-550 in the complete issue of pp 539-552. Original self wrappers, extracted cleanly from a larger bound volume.

Pamphlet. 4to [8-1/4" x 11-5/8"]. 14 pp. an offprint about the bursting of the uranium nucleus by slow neutrons. The third of three important papers by Hahn and Strassmann giving a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission. Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. a little browned at the extremities else a nearly fine copy.

Pamphlet. 4to [8-1/4" x 11-5/8"]. 20 pp. an offprint about the bursting of the uranium nucleus by slow neutrons. The first of three important papers by Hahn and Strassmann giving a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission. Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. some chipping to the extremities and a little browned at the else a very good copy. see scans.

Pamphlet. 4to [8-1/4" x 11-5/8"]. 20 pp. an offprint about the bursting of the uranium nucleus by slow neutrons. The first of three important papers by Hahn and Strassmann giving a comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission. Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944. a little browned at the extremities else a nearly fine copy.

First edition. The Discovery of Nuclear Fission. First edition, journal issues in original printed wrappers, including the true first appearance of Hahn and Strassmann?s discovery of nuclear fission, as well as the work of Hahn and Meitner which led up to the discovery, and the subsequent work of Hahn and Strassmann on the identification of the fission products. ?Few modern discoveries have influenced mankind so rapidly and so profoundly as has nuclear fission? (Segr?, p. 42). ?Early in December 1938 [Hahn and Strassmann] thought they had established some decay chains in which the genetic relations appeared to be solidly known. Supposedly four isotopes of radium were decaying to Ac[tinium] and then to Th[orium] ? To make doubly sure, Hahn and Strassmann decided to identify the radium isotopes beyond any doubt. They submitted them to several stringent chemical tests using barium as a carrier and radium as a tracer.These superb experiments forced Hahn and Strassmann to conclude reluctantly that the hypothetical radium isotopes were in fact barium! In their historic 22 December paper [published 6 January 1939] for Naturwissenschaften they wrote: ?As chemists, in consequence of the experiments just described, we should change the schema given above and introduce the symbols of Ba, La, Ce in place of Ra, Ac, Th. As ?nuclear chemists,? working very close to the field of physics, we cannot yet bring ourselves to take such a drastic step, which goes against all previous experiences of nuclear physics.? A few lines earlier, however, the authors had noted ?that the sum of the mass numbers of Ba + Ma [technetium], for instance 138 + 101, gives 239??a clear sign that they were thinking of fission. This is the moment of the discovery of nuclear fission? (Segr?, p. 42). Hahn and Strassmann?s paper ?started scientists down the path to the atomic bomb. Originally collaborating with Lise Meitner who was forced to flee Nazi Germany in 1938, they had been working with uranium and bombarding samples with slow neutrons. They realized that this caused the uranium atoms to split into lighter nuclei releasing large amounts of energy, and the implications were not lost to a world at war? (Dibner). ?Experiments conducted in 1938 at Berlin by Hahn and Strassman [sic] were reported to Lise Meitner, an Austrian scientist who had fled to Copenhagen to escape religious persecution. She and her nephew, O. R. Frisch, working in Niels Bohr?s laboratory, found the true explanation of these phenomena. The interpolation of a neutron into the nucleus of a uranium atom caused it to divide into two parts and to release energy amounting to about 200,000,000 electron volts. This process bore such a close similarity to the division of a living cell that Frisch suggested the use of the term ?fission? to describe it? (PMM). Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry ?for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei.? We have been unable to trace any other comparable set of these original issues, or even just the January 6 issue, in original printed wrappers, on the market. Hahn and Strassmann?s work is most often encountered in bound volumes of Die Naturwissenschaften (or extracts therefrom), or in the summary paper ?Uber das Zerplatzen des Urankernes Durch Langsame Neutronen? published in the Transactions of the Prussian Academy of Sciences 1939 (it appeared as issue No. 12 of this journal, published in the summer of 1939). Hahn and Meitner worked together at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institute (KWI) of Chemistry in Berlin from 1912, discovering the new element protactinium in 1918; Strassmann joined them there in 1929 and G?tte in 1935. When, after the First World War, limitations for women in the academic world were lifted, Meitner became professor at the KWI; Hahn became its director in 1928. ?In 1934 [Enrico] Fermi roused the world of radioactivity with his method of neutron bombardment and that same year reported on the possible production of transuranic elements by irradiating uranium with neutrons. The irradiation had led to radioactive substances with different half-lives such as 10s, 40s, 13min, and 90min. Fermi?s group had separated the 13-min and 90-min ?bodies? chemically from uranium and had shown that they were not isotopes of elements, which are located only a few places below uranium in the Periodic Table ? they assumed that the uranium nucleus with the extra neutron transformed, via beta decay, into a nucleus of an element with the number 93 in the Periodic Table. That could still be unstable and transit, by another beta decay, into a nucleus of element 94. ?The idea of more than 92 elements was, of course, contested. Ida Noddack, a renowned chemist and co-discoverer of the element rhenium, pointed out that all known elements had to be excluded before new ones were proposed. This very sound advice was not taken. Nuclear physicists saw no possibility for a nucleus to fragment into large pieces. Nothing more drastic than alpha decay had ever been observed. Another way out was also proposed: in spite of Fermi?s interpretation, his 13-min body might be an isotope of protactinium, element number 91. Here Hahn and [Lisa] Meitner came in. After all, they were discoverers of protactinium and knew the properties of this element? (Brandt, pp. 264-265). ??On the Artificial Conversion of Uranium with Neutrons? [1 ? see numbering of papers below], Hahn and Meitner called their first work on the uranium problem, which was published on 11 January 1935 in Naturwissenschaften. In the text it says, ?Amongst the many radioactive substances produced with neutrons uranium claims a special interest. For Fermi, Rasetti, and d?Agostino came to the conclusion from their common investigation that a radioactive element of higher atomic number than 92 was formed by the irradiation of uranium with neutrons ? We now have set about a detailed investigation of this uranium process ?? ?It was not protoactinium. Hahn and Meitner succeeded in ascertaining that with.

4to. 1 1/4 pp. An einen jungen Amerikaner, der sich für Naturwissenschaften interessierte.Da werden Sie sicher wissen, dass Otto Hahn und ich Chemiker waren - nicht physiker, wie oft angenommen wird. Lise Meitner war die Physikerin, die über 30 Jahre mit Otto Hahn zusammengearbeitet hatte und Deutschland im Sommer 1938 verlassen musste, weil Sie Jüdin war []Nachdem wir die Kernspaltung in Berlin entdeckt hatten, wurde Lise Meitner in Kenntnis gesetzt. Gemeinsam mit ihrem Neffen, dem Physiker Otto Robert Frisch [] hat sie unser Ergebnis mit phyiskalischen Methoden bestätigt []" - Beiliegt: Portraitphotographie ohne U., ein Druck seines Vortrags Friedliche Chemie der Atomkerne" (1948).

First edition, offprint issue, in which Meitner as the principal author and her colleagues examine the products of neutron bombardment of uranium and their decay patterns. It is part of a long series of experimental work undertaken by the Berlin team between 1934 and 1938, which culminated in the discovery of nuclear fission. "In 1934, intrigued by Enrico Fermi's experiments indicating that transuranic elements were produced by the neutron irradiation of uranium, Meitner [1878-1968] recruited Hahn, and later Strassmann, for the investigation that resulted in the discovery of nuclear fission. Meitner was the team's leader, interpreting the data from chemistry, radiochemistry, and her own physical measurements into the context of nuclear physics" (Dictionary of Women in Science). After the Second World War broke out, Meitner (of Jewish origin) fled Germany for Stockholm. Her forced emigration "shattered her career and clouded her scientific reputation. Five months after she left Berlin, the remaining members of her team announced the splitting of the uranium nucleus, a discovery in which she should have fully shared. Although Meitner and her nephew, the physicist Otto Frisch, gave the first theoretical interpretation for the process (and named it fission), the 1944 Nobel Prize in chemistry was awarded to Hahn alone" (Dictionary of Women in Science). Meitner concluded this paper somewhat speculatively, saying that "the processes must be neutron capture by uranium-238, which leads to three isomeric nuclei of uranium-239. This result is very difficult to reconcile with current concepts of the nucleus". It was submitted for publication in May 1937, concurrent with a near-identical second paper by the team, led by Hahn as the first author and published in the Chemische Berichte. Counter to Meitner's ambiguity, Hahn interpreted the data much more decisively, stating that the "chemical distinction [of transuranes] from all previously known elements needs no further discussion". Their contrasting reports speak to the disciplinary divide - between physics and chemistry - with which the team continued to grapple. Octavo, pp. 249-70. With numerous tables and diagrams within text. Original printed wrappers, wire-stitched as issued. "Kern" ("nucleus") pencilled on front cover. Spine splitting a little at ends: a near-fine copy.

Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1942/ 3. - Berlin, Verlag Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1942, 4°, 30 pp., 19 Fig., orig. Broschur. First Edition! The second of Hahn and Strassman's three fundamental papers on nuclear fission. For the first paper in the series, 'Uber das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen' (1939 ) see Dibner, Heralds of Science 168 ; and Norman Library 96 3. Otto Hahn (1879- 1968) was a German chemist, and a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. Hahn is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of radioactive recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium-strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Together with his assistants, Hans-Joachim Born, Siegfried Flügge, Hans Götte, Walter Seelmann-Eggebert and Strassmann, he catalogued about one hundred fission product isotopes. They also investigated means of isotope separation; the chemistry of element 93; and methods for purifying uranium oxides and salts.

1st Edition. NEAR FINE CONDITION FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL WRAPS OF THE OFFPRINT of the first of Hahn and Strassmann's "three fundamental papers on nuclear fission," work which, when confirmed, demonstrated the previously unknown phenomenon of nuclear fission (Dibner, Heralds of Science, 168). (NOTE: We separately offer another copy of this in very good -- somewhat faded -- condition). "Über das Zerplatzen" constitutes the "first comprehensive account of the phenomenon of nuclear fission. In 1938, the radiochemist, Otto Hahn and the nuclear chemist Fritz Strassmann demonstrated the presence of radioactive barium, lanthanum and cesium among the products of neutron bombardment of uranium-a phenomenon that seemed to contradict all previous experiences of nuclear physics" (Norman). This paper "indicated fission of the uranium nucleus into two parts of about equal size with the release of much energy [in fact a tremendous jump over the energy produced in all previous transmutation reactions" (Dibner). Hahn and Strassmann's findings resulted from irradiation of uranium by neutrons produced by exposing beryllium to the alpha particles from radium; their discovery was made by recognizing the nature of the radioactive products from the fission reactions. Hahn received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1944; Hahn, Meitner and Strassmann, the Fermi award in 1966. References: Dibner, Heralds of Science 168; Norman 163. CONDITION & DETAILS: Berlin: Verlag der Akademie der Wissenshaften. Quarto (11.5 x 8.25 inches; 288 x 206mm). 20pp. Four figures. Offprint in original printed wraps. Bright and clean. Near fine condition in every way.

(22,5 x 15 cm). VIII, 803 S. Mit 314 Abbildungen. Halbleinwandband der Zeit. Erste Ausgabe. - "Auf Grund einer neuen japanischen Arbeit. wurden unsere bisherigen Befunde. noch einmal überprüft. Bei völliger Bestätigung unserer früheren experimentellen Ergebnisse ist die Deutung der Versuche nunmehr ganz anders geworden. Bei der Uranspaltung entsteht 1. ein 12-Minuten-Molybdän, das sich offenbar in ein sehr kurzlebiges Isotop des Elements 43 (Ma) umwandelt. 2. Es entsteht ein 14-Minuten-Molybdän, das sich in ein Isotop des Elements 43 von 14 Minuten Halbwertszeit umwandelt. Das früher für ein einheitliches 18-Minuten-Molybdän-Isotop gehaltene Produkt ist also in Wirklichkeit eine Mischung von drei Körpern sehr ähnlicher Halbwertszeit, die durch ihr Zusammenspiel, gleichgültig zu welcher Zeit gemessen wird, den früher gefundenen 18-Minuten-Abfall ergeben. 3. Das schon früher beschriebene 67-Stunden-Molybdän wurde bestätigt" (Zusammenfassung). - Stempel auf Vorsatz und Titel, sonst sauber und gut erhalten.

Abh. Preuss. Akad. Wiss., 1944/1-12. - Berlin, Verlag Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1944-1945, 4°, 57; 24; 80; 30; 12; 24; 18; 77; 14 pp., zahlr. Abbildungen, Halbleinenband d.Zt.; St.a.Tit. First Edition! The third of Hahn and Strassman's three fundamental papers on nuclear fission. For the first paper in the series, 'Uber das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen' (1939 ) see Dibner, Heralds of Science 168 ; and Norman Library 96 3. Otto Hahn (1879- 1968) was a German chemist, and a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. Hahn is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry. Hahn and Lise Meitner discovered radioactive isotopes of radium, thorium, protactinium and uranium. He also discovered the phenomena of radioactive recoil and nuclear isomerism, and pioneered rubidium-strontium dating. In 1938, Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassmann discovered nuclear fission, for which Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Nuclear fission was the basis for nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons. Together with his assistants, Hans-Joachim Born, Siegfried Flügge, Hans Götte, Walter Seelmann-Eggebert and Strassmann, he catalogued about one hundred fission product isotopes. They also investigated means of isotope separation; the chemistry of element 93; and methods for purifying uranium oxides and salts.