Abstract

After the discovery of the neutron by Chadwick in 1932, the group led by Fermi in Rome began bombarding different elements with neutrons to study the radioactivity induced through (n,γ) reactions. The decay characteristics of the radioactivity in neutron-irradiated uranium was interpreted to indicate that some of the products were probably transuranium elements. Similar conclusions were reached by other research groups; for example in 1937 Meitner, Hahn and Strassman in Berlin proposed the following reaction/decay series (omitting mass numbers)

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