9. Bohr and Wheeler Describe Fission With Liquid-drop Model (1939)

Marvin
1 min readNov 5, 2018

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Less than a year after physicists reported their stunning discovery of nuclear fission, Bohr and Wheeler use the liquid-drop model of the nucleus to calculate fission parameters that agree well with experiments. The results become essential for the development of the atomic bomb and nuclear power.

What is nuclear fission:

And what is Liquid-drop model:

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