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FRSH/B/81
Title
'Letters 1939'
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- Jan.-July 1939 (Creation)
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(1904-1979)
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Outgoing letters.
2 January-10 July
Includes material relating to the publication of Meitner's and Frisch's two notes in Nature on nuclear fission; see letter of 22 January for reference to the coining of the term 'fission' and history of the discovery, and letter of 15 March re publication delay.
Letters also relate to arrangements for F. Urbach to work in Birmingham (see also A.48, B.104), and to Frida and Leo Frischauer.
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See also: A.48, Correspondence '1939 to England', and B.104, Correspondence: Simons - Urbach.