Christopher Nolan’s upcoming biopic Oppenheimer tells the story of the titular physicist who became known as the “father of the atomic bomb.” Under Oppenheimer's leadership, a small group of 20th ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The discovery of nuclear fission in ...

But what precisely does the word mean? The simplest answer is the insistence that North Korea turn over its stock of manufactured nuclear devices to a third party. This is certainly desirable but we ...

IN their classic paper 1 discussing the theory of the fission process, Bohr and Wheeler estimated the energy release to be expected in binary, ternary and quaternary fission of the compound nucleus of ...

Uranium is a naturally occurring radioactive element, which has the atomic number of 92 and corresponds to the chemical symbol U in the periodic table. It belongs to a special group of elements called ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The discovery of nuclear fission in ...