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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 discovers radio waves in 1893?
(a) Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
(b) Max von Laue.
(c) Ernest Rutherford.
(d) James Maxwell.

2. Who is the second woman in history to earn a Ph.D. at the University of Vienna?
(a) Lise Meitner.
(b) Yehuda Menuhia.
(c) Marie Curie.
(d) Maria Goeppert-Mayer.

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

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

5. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?
(a) April 30, 1932.
(b) December 10, 1932.
(c) December 8, 1931.
(d) January 30, 1933.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1939, who is pursuing atomic research in Germany?

2. What is the name of George Gamov's wife?

3. When does de Hevesy's entire family become ennobled?

4. What Russian-Jewish biochemist is later elected first president of Israel?

5. What is the subject of Leo Szilard's Ph.D. thesis?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs?

2. In the mid 1930's, what scientist does Leo Szilard team up with and what is the subject of their experiments?

3. What are "banzai charges"?

4. What instrument does Rutherford and Hans Gieger work on together and why?

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

6. Why does Lise Meitner leave Austria and go to Copenhagen?

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

8. How does Bohr's memorandum regarding the nuclear arms race to come and the post nuclear war get to President Roosevelt?

9. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

10. What two scientists come to Berkeley in 1928-1929 and what do they develop?

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