On Mon, Sep 2, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Jed Rothwell <[email protected]> wrote:
Just knowing the principles of fission was not enough to make a bomb. You > had to master many other subjects. > Also, Fermi didn't know he was looking at fission prior to 1939. He thought he had discovered transuranic elements (elements heavier than uranium) by adding neutrons. It was apparent only later that the process he had been looking at involved fission. He added a footnote to his 1938 Nobel Prize lecture to clear up this embarrassing mistake. Eric
