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Wigner effect

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particle physics

In radiation: Neutrons
The phenomenon, known as the Wigner effect and sometimes as a “knock on” process, was actually discovered in 1943 by the American chemists Milton Burton and T.J. Neubert and found to have profound influences on graphite and other materials.
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work of Cottrell

In Sir Alan Cottrell
…was done to release the Wigner energy that had stored up in the graphite from the disruption of its atomic structure by neutron irradiation. Cottrell was placed in charge of the research program to better understand the release of Wigner energy, and by March 1958 the work of Cottrell’s team…
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