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''Applied Radiochemistry'' is an important collection of lectures by
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Otto Hahn Otto Hahn (; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the fields of radioactivity and radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and father of nuclear fission. Hahn and Lise Meitner ...
published in
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in 1936 by the Cornell University Press (
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) and simultaneously by the
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). Edited by H. Milford, and spanning 278 pages, the volume presents the content of a group of lectures delivered by Hahn between March and June 1933, when he was a lecturer of chemistry at Cornell University. The work was cited by fellow Nobel laureate
Glenn Seaborg Glenn Theodore Seaborg (; April 19, 1912February 25, 1999) was an American chemist whose involvement in the synthesis, discovery and investigation of ten transuranium elements earned him a share of the 1951 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. His work in ...
as a major influence on his own early work in
radiochemistry Radiochemistry is the chemistry of radioactive materials, where radioactive isotopes of elements are used to study the properties and chemical reactions of non-radioactive isotopes (often within radiochemistry the absence of radioactivity leads to ...
. The articles were delivered at the
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AIP Niels Bohr Library holdings entry
*1937 review in The Journal of Physical Chemistry: {{authority control Glenn T. Seaborg Otto Hahn Radiochemistry 1936 non-fiction books Books of lectures