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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 "Physics in Desert Country".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?
(a) Thermodynamics.
(b) Nuclear physics.
(c) Refrigeration.
(d) General physics.

2. Who is the Director of the London School of Economics in the 1930's?
(a) A.E. Houseman.
(b) John Maynard Keynes.
(c) William Beveridge.
(d) Edward Teller.

3. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?
(a) Zurich.
(b) Cambridge.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Berkeley.

4. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?
(a) Isaac Newton.
(b) Niels Bohr.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) George de Hevesy.

5. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?
(a) 1920.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1908.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is the chairman of the British Uranium Committee in the early 1940's?

2. What does Oppenheimer and a group of scientists name the "Super"?

3. What is Einstein's second wife's name?

4. When does the U.S. Uranium Committee meet to reorganize work on the atomic bomb?

5. When does the first meeting of the U.S. Advisory Committee on Uranium meet?

(see the answer key)

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