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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?
(a) Leland Stanford.
(b) Robert Oppenheimer.
(c) George Rutherford.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

2. When are the Kaiser Wilhelm Institutes in Berlin dedicated?
(a) 1900.
(b) 1912.
(c) 1910.
(d) 1903.

3. What is the rumor that circulates regarding the 20th century Hungarian Jewish scientists?
(a) They are visitors from Mars.
(b) They are related.
(c) They are not all Hungarians.
(d) They are specially trained from birth.

4. What does Rolf Wideroe invent?
(a) An accelerator tube that avoids high voltage problems.
(b) A matrix table for elements.
(c) An accelerator tube that causes high voltage problems.
(d) A refrigerator that does not freeze.

5. Where does Hans Bethe go after his dismissal from Tubingen?
(a) Cambridge.
(b) Manchester.
(c) Cornell.
(d) Princeton.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1910, Jews make up what percent of the Hungarian population?

2. Whose contributions to 20th century physics rank second only to Albert Einstein's?

3. Where does John von Neumann go in 1930 when he leaves Germany?

4. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?

5. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is a cyclotron, who patents it, and who produces the first working model?

2. What is the topic for the seventh Solvay Conference in Brussels in 1933 and what is its relationship to George Gamow?

3. What is the Balfour Declaration?

4. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

5. What is the Joliot-Curies discovery that contributes to the scientific knowledge about radioactivity?

6. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

7. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

8. What is the Manhattan Project?

9. What patent does Leo Szilard apply for in 1934 and where?

10. What ends Germany's race to build the atomic bomb?

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