Otto Hahn and the rise of nuclear physics / edited by William R. Shea.

Dordrecht, Holland ; Boston : D. Reidel Pub. Co.; Hingham, MA : Distributed in the U.S.A. and Canada by Kluwer Academic Publishers, [1983], ©1983.

252 pages : illustrations, 1 plan ; 23 cm.

Introduction / William R. Shea -- The nuclear electron hypothesis / Roger H. Stuewer -- The evolution of matter / Robert H. Kargon -- The discovery of fission and a nuclear physics paradigm / Spencer R. Weart -- Internal and external conditions for the discovery of fission by the Berlin Team / Fritz Krafft -- Otto Hahn, science, and social responsibility / Lawrence Badash -- The politics of British science in the Munich era / Neil Cameron -- Why Hahn's radiothorium surprised Rutherford in Montreal / Thaddeus J. Trenn -- The discovery of uranium Z by Otto Hahn / Ernst Berninger -- Nuclear physics in Canada in the 1930s / B.W. Sargent.

Includes bibliographic references and index