nuclear reaction: Quick Facts

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transmutation radioactivity nuclear fission nuclear fusion scattering cross section exoenergetic reaction nuclear reaction equilibrium radiative nuclear encounter spallation ionization chemical bonding catalysis deformation and flow friction diffusion work absorption adsorption dispersion

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Emilio Segrè

Emilio Segrè

Italian-American physicist

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Gregory Breit

Russian-born American physicist

Owen Chamberlain

Owen Chamberlain

American physicist

Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi at work in the wireless room of his yacht Electra, c. 1920.

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