FIRST PUBLICATION OF THE OPPENHEIMER-PHILLIPS PROCESS

OPPENHEIMER, J. R. (+) M. PHILLIPS.

Note on the Transmutation Function for Deutrons. [In "The Physical Review, Volume 48, Second Series, Number 6, September, 1935].

Lancaster, American Physical Society, 1935. Lex8vo. Entire volume in the original printed blue/grey wrappers. Minor miscolouring and soiling to extremities. A fine and clean copy. Pp. 500-2. [Entire issue: Pp. 491-572].

First printing of this important paper in which the Oppenheimer-Phillips process was presented for the first time - Oppenheimer's "most important contribution in this area" (Oppenheimer. A Life. P. 29).
A deuteron, entering a heavy nucleus, is split into proton plus neutron, one of these particles being retained by the nucleus while the other is re-emitted. After the second world war this became a fundamental tool in the study of nuclear energy levels and their properties.
Phillips was Oppenheimer's research associate in 1933-4.

In "The Physical Review - The First Hundred Years. A Selection of Seminal Papers and Commentaries".

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