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Berlin, Julius Springer, 1938. 4to (27.0 x 19.5 cm). 2 pp. Original printed wrappers. = This is an essential paper on the discovery that uranium could be split into several lighter elements (nuclear fission). In it, Hahn and Strassmann proposed an explanation for a problem previously noted that year by Irène Curie and Pavle Savic. Their theoretical proposal turned out to be wrong, but served well as a basis and catalyst for new research that only a few weeks later lead to a decisive breakthrough. Written by the German physicists Otto Hahn (1879-1968) and Friedrich Wilhelm "Fritz" Strassmann (1902-1980), and published in Die Naturwissenschaften Herausgegeben von Fritz Süffert. Hahn won the 1944 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, although Strassmann (and Lise Meitner) played a no less important part in the discovery and understanding of nuclear fission. These is the complete, original issue of Die Naturwissenschaften, 26. Jahrgang. Heft 46 (pp. 745-760). Wrappers very weakly toned, as always, and with a few, small and very weak creases in the outer margin, otherwise fine, clean, unmarked. An excellent copy. Chemie.de Lexicon, Entdeckung der Kernspaltung 3.3.3.