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To: Maxwell who wrote (39085)	10/12/1998 6:19:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) of 1572369

MAXWELL - Re: " Fermi is he is the one that came up with the principle of "splitting the atom". " WRONG AGAIN ! Many, many physicists worked on this problem including Ernest Rutherford. Leo Szilard may have been the first to contemplate complete "atomic splitting" in early 1933, but Irene Curie and her husband Frederick Joliot actually "split" the first atoms using alpha particle radiation on aluminum foils, producing radioactive phosphorus in late 1933. Enrico Fermi didn't begin working on "atom splitting" until AFTER he read the Joliot-Curie results in early 1934 at a conference in Solvay. He then pursued radiation experiments using NEUTRON radiation as a source (instead of alpha particles). He eventually succeeded, first with fluorine, and then aluminum - which corroborated the Joliot-Curie results. Later he narrowed his focus to neutron radiation of uranium. Paul

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