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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16 "Revelations".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?
(a) 1936.
(b) 1939.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1944.

2. What is the topic of one of the debates that takes place at the Solvay Conference?
(a) The nuclear chain reaction.
(b) Relativity.
(c) Ionization.
(d) The structure of the proton.

3. Who writes "The Shape of Things to Come"?
(a) Max Planck.
(b) H.G.Wells.
(c) Richard Rhodes.
(d) Leo Szilard.

4. What does Frisch call the division process of the nucleus?
(a) Fusion.
(b) Fission.
(c) Bombardment.
(d) Splitting.

5. When does Robert Oppenheimer come to Berkeley?
(a) 1939.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1919.
(d) 1929.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who writes the letters to Roosevelt "sounding the alarm" about nuclear fission?

2. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?

3. What is Theordor von Karman's area of study?

4. When does Oppenheimer and his aides move to New Mexico?

5. Where does the first full-scale self-sustained nuclear chain reaction occur?

(see the answer key)

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