edited by João da Providência (University of Coimbra, Portugal) , David M Brink (Oxford University, UK) , Feodor Karpechine (St. Petersburg State University, Russia) , & F Bary Malik (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)

In this volume, the main results of the last sixty years of research in nuclear fission are summarized, showing how ideas advanced from the beginning, for nuclei have also found useful applications in the new area of atomic clusters. The present status of the physics of fission is discussed in depth, and perspectives for further research are outlined.

• Fission Studies with Large Detector Arrays (J K Hwang et al.)
• Fission, Decay of Nuclei and the Extension of the Periodic System (W Greiner)
• Neutron Halo of Fissile Nuclei (V I Serov et al.)
• Decay Channels of Hot Nuclei and Hot Metalic Clusters (P Fröbrich)
• Cluster Radioactivity (A A Ogloblin et al.)
• Static and Dynamical Properties of Simple Metal Clusters: Analogies with Atomic Nuclei (J A Alonso et al.)
• The Role of Exotica in Studying Nuclear Fission (F F Karpeshin)
• Particle-Accompanied Fission (M Mutterer et al.)
• Quaternary Fission (F Gönnenwein et al.)
• Bremsstrahlung Emission in Alpha-Decay (D M Brink)
• A Model for Particle Induced Fission (F B Malik)
• Fusion-Fission Reactions of Heaviest Nuclei. Synthesis of Superheavy Elements with Z=114 and Z=116 (Yu Ts Oganessian et al.)
• and other papers