"Transmutation of the Lighter Elements in Stars", in Nature.

Edité par Macmillan and Co., London, 1929

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ATKINSON, R. d'E. And F.G. Houtermans, "Transmutation of the Lighter Elements in Stars", in Nature, Macmillan and Co., London, 13 April 1929, vol 123 no. 3102, pp 567-89 in the complete weekly issue of pp 553-572 plus 12pp of ads. Original wrappers, with all ads. VG copy. Referencing and applying the Gamow factor (Zeitschrift fur Physik, vol 52, 1928). [++] "The Houterman-Atkinson theory was a quantitative theory based on the most recent quantum mechanical knowledge. The theory counts among the pioneering contributions to modern astrophysics, but at first it attracted little attention" (Kragh, 183). "Yes, the early fall of 1928. Houtermans introduced me to the very recent work of Gamow showing how α-particles could get out of the nucleus although they had far less energy than would result from sliding down the Coulomb field from radii where it was known to hold; the wave-mechanics allowed them to tunnel through a region where their kinetic energy would be negative. Gamow and Houtermans had then shown that the Geiger-Nuttall relation, connecting the α-particle energy and the life of the parent atom, could be roughly explained on this view. I saw that their model could not really allow any satisfactory wave-function inside the nucleus, and that one needed a model with two independent parameters, the radius and the depth of the potential well that one postulated. We calculated values for these from the lifetimes and energies of the α-active elements, and they looked reasonable. Meanwhile, Gamow had shown that there must be a finite probability for penetration of α-particle into a nucleus."--AIP interview by David Devorkin of Atkinson. [++] While at Göttingen, Houtermans met Enrico Fermi, George Gamow, Werner Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli, and Victor Frederick Weisskopf. Houtermans and Gamow did pioneering work on quantum tunneling in 1928. Houtermans, in 1929, with Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, made the first calculation of stellar thermonuclear reactions. Their pioneering calculations were the impetus for Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker and Hans Bethe, in 1939, to put forth the correct theory of stellar thermonuclear energy generation."--Wikipedia [++] "So let us now come to the physics problems that attracted the two young physicists Gamow and Houtermans. Gamow had just written a paper expounding a remarkable theory of nuclear alpha decay, based on the tunnel effect. And now the experimentalist Houtermans was discussing enthusiastically with the theorist Gamow refinements of the theory and its application to specific nuclei. Robert Atkinson, a young British physicist at Gottingen, was familiar with Arthur Eddington's estimates of stellar interior temperatures. Atkinson and Houtermans wrote a paper (submitted for publication from Berlin in March 1929) putting forward the remarkable idea that nuclear reactions are the source of the stellar energy. "--Iosif B. Khriplovich, "The Eventful Life of Fritz Houtermans" Physics Today, 45, 7, 29 (1992).

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Titre
"Transmutation of the Lighter Elements in Stars", in Nature.
Auteur
ATKINSON, R. d'E. And F.G. Houtermans
Éditeur
Macmillan and Co., London
Année de publication
1929
État de l'article
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Soft cover
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