Uranium Nuclear Fission! A Shocking Mix-Up! Looking Back Suddenly, the Transuranium Elements Were There Where the Lights Grew Dim!

In actual history, the period from Fermi's discovery of transuranium elements to Hahn's proposal of Uranium Nuclear Fission was a complicated process.

In May 1934, Fermi bombarded uranium with Neutrons and, through elimination, discovered that the products might contain transuranium elements.

At the time, this was an utterly earth-shattering discovery.

Fermi was already a giant in the physics world then, and he was rigorous in his scholarship, so he maintained an extremely cautious attitude toward this finding.

He intended to carefully verify it several times before considering publication.

But when Corbino, the Holy Father of the youth corps and Italy's Minister of Education, learned the news, he could not wait to announce it.

He had always kept an eye on the achievements of Fermi's laboratory. With an academic achievement capable of shocking the world, of course it had to be trumpeted far and wide.

Corbino immediately announced Fermi's sensational result at the assembly of the Italian Academy of Sciences, before the king and his ministers.

"Fermi has discovered a new element beyond the Periodic Table!"

The moment the news emerged, it caused a sensation across the entire nation.

Major Italian newspapers rushed to report it:

"Under the wise leadership of the Fascist Party and the great leader Mussolini, Italy has regained its ancient glory."

"It is proposed that this new element be named after the leader!"

Fermi was still very innocent at the time, and inwardly, he panicked.

He privately sought out Corbino and explained that the result was not necessarily one hundred percent accurate, hoping they would not overpublicize it.

But Corbino instead comforted him:

"Young people should have confidence!"

Buoyed by all kinds of honors, Fermi also wavered a little.

After all, judging from theory and experimental data, the products really ought to have been transuranium elements, even