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    Status Tweets: @olcfstatus
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Nuclear Fission

Fundamental Fission Modeling Finds a Foothold

By Jonathan Hines • 7 years ago • Science

While trying to fatten the atom in 1938, German chemist Otto Hahn accidentally split it instead. This surprising discovery put modern science on the fast track to the atomic age …
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