Otto Hahn

Nobel Prize lecture

Nobel Lecture, December 13, 1946

From the Natural Transmutations of Uranium to Its Artificial Fission

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From Nobel Lectures, Chemistry 1942-1962, Elsevier Publishing Company, Amsterdam, 1964

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