HAHN, OTTO., FRITZ STRASSMANN & HANS GÖTTE. - [THE ATOM BOMB]
Über das Zerplatzen des Urankernes durch langsame Neutronen. + Einiges über die experimentelle Entwirrung der bei der Spaltung des Urans auftretenden Elemente und Atomarten. + Die chemische Abscheidung der bei der Spaltung des Urans entstehenden Elemente und Atomarten.
Berlin, Verlag der Akademie der Wissenshaften, 1939-44. 4to. Three offprints from Abhandlungen der Preussischen Akadamie der Wissenschaften. Original printed wrappers in exceptionally fine condition. The third paper is an author's proof copy (the offprint number and prices in the advertisement are lacking, and the wrappers are yellow in contrast to the official green wrappers). Cloth folding case. 20;30;14 pp.
¶ First editions, offprint issues. The three fundamental papers on nuclear fission which eventually lead to the creation of the atom bomb.
Hahn and Strassmann's papers indicated fission of the uranium nucleus into two parts of about equal size with the release of much energy (in fact a tremendous jump over the energy produced in all previous transmutation reactions). Hahn received the 1944 Nobel Prize in Chemistry "for his discovery of the fission of heavy nuclei"; he, Meitner and Strassmann shared the U.S.A. Fermi Award in 1966. Norman 963 (first paper only). Segré: X-Rays to Quarks, pp. 206-7. DSB: VI pp.14 for Hahn and DSB: XVIII pp. 880 for Strassmann. See also PMM 422 and Dibner 168.
The three papers together are very scarce.
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