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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. When does Bohr receive his Ph.D.?

2. What does Bohr announce at a Washington conference in 1939?

3. Under whom is the German fission research consolidated?

4. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

5. Where do Frisch's parents go to live after his father is released from concentration camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Nobel Prize medals that Max Von Laue and James Franck had given Niels Bohr for safekeeping?

2. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

3. What is the response in the United States to the need of Jewish scientists to leave Germany and Europe?

4. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?

5. Who are referred to as the "Men from Mars" in the title of Chapter Five and why? You do not have to name them.

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. How does the Little Boy, minus uranium target pieces, arrive on Tinian?

8. What is the character of Budapest in the early 1900's?

9. Is Rutherford's atom a merely theoretical construct?

10. What is the Manhattan Project?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Trinity and Silverplate. What are they? What is their role in the dropping of the atomic bombs? Who are the people involved?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the opinions of Dwight Eisenhower and Curtis LeMay, two military leaders of the time, about the use of the atomic bomb. One is involved in the European war and the other in the Pacific war. Does this make a difference?

Essay Topic 3

The discovery of the neutron is considered the beginning of nuclear physics. Why? What role does this discovery have in the making of the atomic bomb? Is the bomb built without this discovery?

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