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Whose legend?

Some remarks on vera morgenweck-lambrinos and martin trömel: „Lise meitner, otto hahn und die kernspaltung: eine legende aus unseren tagen”

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CAC:

Churchill Archives Centre, Cambridge, England

MPG:

Archive of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin-Dahlem

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Sacramento City College, 95822, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Ruth Lewin Sime

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Sime, R.L. Whose legend?. NTM N.S. 8, 77–84 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02914176

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