1. Foreword

   • S S Kapoor

   EditorialNotes Pages: i - ii

2. Discovery of nuclear fission in Berlin 1938

   • D Hilscher

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 12

3. Nuclear fission phenomenon—At a glance

   • S S Kapoor

   OriginalPaper Pages: 13 - 20

4. Shell structure in deformed nuclei and nuclear fission

   • V M Strutinsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 21 - 32

5. The topography of the nuclear fission barrier

   • J E Lynn

   OriginalPaper Pages: 33 - 84

6. Light-charged particle emission in fission

   • A K Sinha
   • D M Nadkarni
   • G K Mehta

   OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 107

7. Recent radiochemical studies of the fission process

   • Satya Prakash

   OriginalPaper Pages: 109 - 131

8. Nucleon exchange mechanism of mass asymmetry relaxation in fission and other binary nuclear reactions

   • V S Ramamurthy
   • R Ramanna

   OriginalPaper Pages: 133 - 144

9. Saddle-point shapes and fission barriers of rotating nuclei

   • F Plasil

   OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 159

10. Fragment angular distributions in fission and fission-like reactions

    • S S Kapoor
    • V S Ramamurthy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 161 - 174

11. Pre-scission particle and gamma-ray emission in heavy-ion-induced fission

    • J O Newton

    OriginalPaper Pages: 175 - 208

12. The categorical space of fission

    • Luciano G Moretto
    • Gordon J Wozniak

    OriginalPaper Pages: 209 - 253