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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) Robert Oppenheimer.
(b) George Rutherford.
(c) Leland Stanford.
(d) Ernest Lawrence.

2. Hahn and Strassman (without Meitner) continue experiments with neutron bombardment of what element?
(a) Actinium.
(b) Thorium.
(c) Radon.
(d) Uranium.

3. What element does Enrico Fermi and his team begin to experiment with?
(a) Plutonium.
(b) Barium.
(c) Radon.
(d) Uranium.

4. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?
(a) Ernest Lawrence.
(b) Lisa Meitner.
(c) T.A. Chalmers.
(d) Patrick Blacket.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The title of this chapter comes from what philosopher's writings?

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

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

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

5. Who is Alexander Sachs?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. How does President Roosevelt authenticate his decision to expedite the research of the atomic bomb?

3. What is the Balfour Declaration?

4. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

5. What is the German Kristallnacht?

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

7. Why is the discovery of the neutron important?

8. What is the attitude of German physicists to Albert Einstein around 1919?

9. What is the difference between the atomic model of classical physics and Rutherford's model?

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

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