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Artemis Spyrou,, ,Dennis Mücher, and ,The Conversation

101 years ago, physicists made a critical discovery we still don’t understand


Nobel laureate Otto Hahn is credited with the discovery of nuclear fission. Fission is one of the most important discoveries of the 20th century, yet Hahn considered something else to be his best scientific work.

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