1. Otto Hahn, “The Discovery of Fission,” Scientific American, Vol. 198 (February 1958), pp. 76–84.
2. For the French role in this saga, see Bertrand Goldschmidt, The Atomic Adventure, translated from the French by Peter Beer (Oxford: Pergamon, 1964) and Spencer R. Weart, “Scientists in Power: France and the Origins of Nuclear Energy, 1900–1950,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (March, 1949), pp. 41–50.
3. Lise Meitner, “Right and Wrong Roads to the Discovery of Nuclear Energy,” International Atomic Energy Bulletin (December 2, 1982), pp. 6–8; Otto R. Frisch, “How It All Began,” Physics Today, Vol. 20 (November 1967), pp. 43–8
4. cf. Lise Meitner, “Looking Back,” Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (November 1964) and Otto R. Frisch, “Experimental Work with Nuclei: Hamburg, London, Copenhagen,” in Roger H. Stuewer (ed.), Nuclear Physics in Retrospect: Proceedings of a Symposium on the 1930s (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1979), p. 71–3.
5. Lise Meitner and O.R. Frisch, “Letter to the Editor,” Nature, Vol. 143 (February 11, 1939), pp. 239–40.