Nuclear Fission.- Curie (Irène) and Pavel Savitch. "Sur les Radioéléments

uclear Fission.- Curie (Irène) and Pavel Savitch. "Sur les Radioéléments formés dans l'uranium irradié par les neutrons. I [&] II", 2 parts, first edition, in Le Journal de Physique et le Radium, vol. 8 & 9 series 7, pp.385-387 & 355-359, Paris, 1937-38, light marginal browning, ex-library copies with ink-stamps, library half buckram, traces of labels to spine; and Revue Bibliographique for 1937, 4to (3) *** Curie and Savitch describe the formation of new radioelements resulting from the irradiation of uranium, revealing experimental phenomena that would later be understood as the first manifestations of nuclear fission.

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