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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?
2. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
3. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?
4. Who does Enrico Fermi marry?
5. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the Joliot-Curies discovery that contributes to the scientific knowledge about radioactivity?
2. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?
3. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?
4. In the mid 1930's, what scientist does Leo Szilard team up with and what is the subject of their experiments?
5. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?
6. When Szilard enrolls in the University of Berlin, the physics faculty includes three Nobel Laureates in physics. Who are two of these three and what is one scientific discovery they are famous for?
7. What is the Balfour Declaration?
8. President Roosevelt wants policy considerations regarding the making of the atomic bomb limited to the "Top Policy Group". Who is in this group and who is excluded?
9. What is the attitude of German physicists to Albert Einstein around 1919?
10. Where is the center for experimental physics after World War I?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the emotional effects of the creation of the atomic bomb on scientists? Does it effect all scientists the same way? Discuss specific scientists' response, including Leo Szilard and Robert Oppenheimer. In your answer discuss the Interim Committee Scientific Panel and its response.
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the United States government becomes involved in the atomic bomb. Discuss the roles of scientists and non-scientists, including Vannevar Bush, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, Alexander Sachs, Lyman Briggs. What is the government's initial response? Does everyone in the government have the same attitude?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the development of the atomic bomb in Britain, Germany and Tokyo. What ends the development?
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