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The Frisch-Peierls Memorandum The Founding Document of the Nuclear Age /

This book analyzes a little-known but highly significant document that played a key role in early nuclear history: the Frisch-Peierls memorandum of March 1940. Prepared by Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls, refugee European physicists then at the University of Birmingham, this 10-page document describe...

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Main Author:	Reed, Bruce Cameron (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer Nature Switzerland : Imprint: Springer, 2025.
Edition:	1st ed. 2025.
Series:	SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology,
Subjects:	Physics > History. World War, 1939-1945. Nuclear physics. History of Physics and Astronomy. History of World War II and the Holocaust. Nuclear Physics.
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-95929-5
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