Fission

Resources

• Historical
  • Detection of Neutrons Liberated from Beryllium by Gamma Rays: a New Technique for Inducing Radioactivity. Leo Szilard and T.H. Chalmers. Nature. Vol. 134 No. 3387 (29 September 1934): 494–495.
  • Über den Nachweis und das Verhalten der bei der Bestrahlung des Urans mittels Neutronen entstehenden Erdalkalimetalle. O. Hahn and F. Strassmann. Naturwissenschaften. Vol. 27 No. 1 (6 January 1939): 11–15.
  • Disintegration of Uranium by Neutrons: a New Type of Nuclear Reaction. Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch. Nature. Vol. 143 (11 February 1939): 239–240.
  • Fission of Uranium by Alpha-Particles. Enrico Fermi & Emilio Segrè. Physical Review. Vol. 59 (April 1941): 680–681.
  • The Development of the First Chain Reacting Pile. Enrico Fermi. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society. Vol. 90 No. 1 (January 1946): 20–24.
• Humor
  • MIT Physicists Split the Smithereen. The Onion (31 May 2000).
• Leo Szilard
  • General
    • Leo Szilard Online. Gene Dannen.
    • Einstein's Letters to Roosevelt. Two of which were written by Leo Szilard, including the most first and most famous one.
  • Reactor patents
    • Improvements in or relating to the transmutation of chemical elements. Leo Szilard. GB Patent 440,023 (filed 1934, awarded 1935)
    • Improvements in or relating to the transmutation of chemical elements. Leo Szilard. GB Patent 630,726 (filed 1934, awarded 1936 but withheld from publication)
    • Neutronic Reactor. Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard. US Patent 2,708,656 (filed 1944, awarded 1955).
    • Air Cooled Neutronic Reactor. Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard. US Patent 2,836,554 (filed 1945, awarded 1958).
  • Video on demand
    • Knowledge or Certainty (6/7). The Ascent of Man. BBC (1973). Jacob Bronowski tells the story of his friend Leo Szilard's work on the atomic bomb from its conception to its use in warfare.
    • Breaking the Chain. Stock Footage Pictures (2009). In 1939, after proving the possibility of a nuclear chain reaction, physicist Leo Szilard must convince his colleagues at Columbia University to keep their nuclear research secret and protect the world from a Nazi atomic bomb.
    • Retrobites: Atomic Bomb: Szilard (1960). Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (1960). Physicist Leo Szilard explains how he came up with the idea for the atomic bomb.
• Miscellaneous
  • Nuclear Reactor Laboratory. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Virtual Nuclear Tourist. Joseph Gonyeau.
  • World's First Nuclear Power Plant. English Russia.
  • World Nuclear Association. Promotes nuclear energy and supports the global nuclear industry.