Ellis P. Steinberg
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LOCATION: Park Forest, IL, United States
Director, Chemistry Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, 1982–88; Section Head, Nuclear and Inorganic Chemistry, 1974–82.
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Nuclear fission, subdivision of a heavy atomic nucleus, such as that of uranium or plutonium, into two fragments of roughly equal mass. The process is accompanied by the release of a large amount of energy. In nuclear fission the nucleus of an atom breaks up into two lighter nuclei. The process may…
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