FRENCH DISCOVERY
QUADRIFUSION OF ATOM AID TO RESEARCH LONDON, Dec. 6. Professor Joliot-Curie, the French physicist and Commissioner of Atomic Energy, announced the discovery of trifusion and quadrifusion of the uranium atom which would permit important progress in research on atomic energy for peaceful ends. The Daily Telegraph’s scientific editor says that it was originally supposed that uranium 235 could be split into only two fragments. Professor Joliot-Curie has shown that three or four different atoms may be formed by the fission of a single uranium atom. The discovery’s significance is that the greater the number of ways in which the same heavy atom can be divided up the greater the hope of making deductions about its structure.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22199, 9 December 1946, Page 7
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