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Paul Harteck

German chemist

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discovery of tritium

In tritium
Oliphant, and Paul Harteck, who bombarded deuterium (D, the hydrogen isotope of mass number 2) with high-energy deuterons (nuclei of deuterium atoms) according to the equation D + D → H + T. Willard Frank Libby and Aristid V. Grosse showed that tritium is present in natural water,…
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Rutherford

In Ernest Rutherford: Return to Cambridge of Ernest Rutherford
…Oliphant, and German physical chemist Paul Harteck bombarded deuterium with deuterons, producing tritium in the first fusion reaction.
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