VNEC - May 1939 – Francis Perrin Introduces the Concept of the Critical Mass of Uranium Required to Produce a Self-Sustaining Release of Energy

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May 1939 – Francis Perrin Introduces the Concept of the Critical Mass of Uranium Required to Produce a Self-Sustaining Release of Energy

Timeline May 1, 1939

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January 1939 – Lise Meitner and Otto Frisch, Working Under Niels Bohr, Calculate the Energy Release from Fission

Timeline January 1, 1939

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1938 – Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann Demonstrate Atomic Fission

Timeline December 17, 1938

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1932 – James Chadwick Discovers the Neutron

Timeline January 1, 1932

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1905 – Albert Einstein Suggests The Equivalence Between Mass and Energy

Timeline January 1, 1905

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1898 – Pierre and Marie Curie Isolate Polonium and Radium from Pitchblende

Timeline January 1, 1898

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1896 – Pierre and Marie Curie Identify ‘Radioactivity’

Timeline January 1, 1896

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1789 – German Chemist Martin Klaproth Discovers Uranium

Timeline January 1, 1789

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