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How the nuclear fission of uranium was discovered is detailed in, e.g., Jeremy Bernstein’s “Plutonium” (Bernstein 2007). The phenomenon of nuclear fission itself was first discovered by E. Walton and J. Cockcroft in 1932 with regard to the reaction of proton with 3Li7, which produced two α-particles (helium nuclei). Enrico Fermi and his associates...
