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  ARTICLES

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  . “Initiation of the Chain Reaction: The Search for Pure Materials.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 12–14.

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  Chandrasekhar, Subramanyan. “The Pursuit of Science.” Minerva 22, nos. 3/4 (September 1984): 410–420.

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  Darrigol, Olivier. “The Origin of Quantized Matter Waves.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 16, no. 2 (1986): 197–253.

  . “The Quantum Electrodynamic Analogy in Early Nuclear or the Roots of Yukawa’s Theory.” Revue d’histoire des sciences 41 nos. 3/4 (July–December 1988): 227–297.

  Debye, Peter. “The Scientific Work of Enrico Fermi.” Proceedings of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, The Rumford Bicentennial 82, no. 7 (December 1953): 290–293.

  De Gregorio, Alberto G. “Neutron Physics in the 1930s.” Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences 35, no. 2 (March 1995): 293–340.

  De Hevesy, George. “The Reactor and the Production of Isotopes.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 37.

  Dresden, Max. Letter in “Heisenberg, Goudsmit, and the German ‘A-Bomb.’” Physics Today 44, no. 5 (May 1991): 93–94.

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  Eklund, Sigvard. “Introduction.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 3–5.

  Emelyanov, Vasily S. “Notes on the History of the First Atomic Reactor in the USSR.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 25–27.

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  . “The Michigan Symposium in Theoretical Physics.” Michigan Alumnus Quarterly Review, Spring 1961, 178–182.

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  Guerra, Francesco, and Nadia Robotti. “Enrico Fermi’s Discovery of Neutron-Induced Artificial Radioactivity: The Influence of His Theory of Beta Decay.” Physics in Perspective 11 (2009): 379–404.

  . “Enrico Fermi’s Discovery of Neutron-Induced Artificial Radioactivity: Neutrons and Neutron Sources.” Physics in Perspective 8 (2006): 255–281.

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  Hahn, Otto. “Enrico Fermi and Uranium Fission.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 9–11.

  Hanson, Norwood Russell. “Discovering the Positron (I).” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12, no. 47 (November 1961): 194–214.

  . “Discovering the Positron (II).” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 12, no. 48 (February 1962): 299–313.

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  Holton, Gerald. “Striking Gold in Science: Fermi’s Group and the Recapture of Italy’s Place in Physics.” Minerva 12, no. 2 (April 1974): 159–198.

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sp; Knight, Amy. “The Selling of the KGB.” Wilson Quarterly 24, no. 1. (Winter 2000): 16–23.

  Konopinski, Emil Jan. “Fermi’s Theory of Beta-Decay.” Reviews of Modern Physics 27, no. 3 (July 1955): 254–257.

  Leone, Matteo, Alessandro Paoletti, and Nadia Robotti. “A Simultaneous Discovery: The Case of Johannes Stark and Antonino Lo Surdo.” Physics in Perspective 6 (2004): 271–294.

  Leone, Matteo, Nadia Robotti, and Carlo Alberto Segnini. “Fermi Archives at the Domus Galilaeana in Pisa.” Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza XXXVII, fasc. 2 (2000): 501–534.

  Ley, Willy. “The Atom and Its Literature.” Military Affairs 10, no. 2 (Summer 1946): 58–61.

  McLay, David B. “Lise Meitner and Erwin Schroedinger: Biographies of Two Austrian Physicists of Nobel Stature.” Minerva 37, no. 1 (March 1999): 75–94.

  Meitner, Lise. “Right and Wrong Roads to the Discovery of Nuclear Energy.” International Atomic Energy Agency Bulletin Special Number 4–0 (December 1962): 6–8.

  Mermin, N. David. “Could Feynman Have Said This?” Physics Today 57, no. 5 (May 2004): 10–11.

  Metropolis, Nicholas. “The Beginning of the Monte Carlo Method.” Los Alamos Science, Special Issue (Spring 1987): 125–130.

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  Oppenheimer, Frank. “In Defense of the Titular Heroes,” review of Lawrence & Oppenheimer, by Nuel Pharr Davis, Physics Today 22, no. 2 (February 1969): 77–80.

  Oppenheimer, J. Robert. “Scientific World Pays Homage to Fermi.” Santa Fe New Mexican, January 6, 1955, 8.

  Pauli, Wolfgang. “Remarks on the History of the Exclusion Principle.” Science 103, no. 2669 (February 22, 1946): 213–215.

  Pearson, J. Michael. “On the Belated Discovery of Fission.” Physics Today 68, no. 6 (June 2015): 40–45.

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