Explore: Thermisches Neutron

penetrating radiation. In 1932, James Chadwick identified this radiation as the neutron. In 1932, Bothe had succeeded Philipp Lenard as Director of the Physikalische

also be used to predict the properties of stars, even white dwarfs and neutron stars, since it holds even when relativistic effects are considered. Although

The subject of his Habilitationsschrift was on nuclear cross sections of neutron scattering experiments conducted at the University of Heidelberg. In the

fission neutrons, the energy distribution of fission fragments, the ratio of neutrons liberated to neutrons absorbed in uranium, and neutron cross sections