Landau and neutron stars

D. G. Yakovlev

Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute, Politekhnicheskaya 26, St.Petersburg 194021, Russia

According to Rosenfeld (1974), Landau discussed the discovery of neutron with Bohr and Rosenfeld in Copenhagen in February 1932 and suggested the existence of neutron stars. However, it has turned out that Landau did not visit Bohr in 1932. Was that discussion real?

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