Fermi at Los Alamos and the early Britain's way to nuclear energy

Abstract

A novel recovery of some important documents related to the Fermi course on neutron physics, held at Los Alamos in 1945, is announced. Its relevance for the effective launch of a British nuclear programme in the early postwar period, independently of the U.S. technical cooperation (precluded by the American authorities) and warmly supported by Chadwick, is discussed.

arXiv commentLatex, amsart, 7 pages, 2 (low resolution) eps figures

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