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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the specific topic of Bohr's controversial paper in 1913?

2. Who heads the Academic Assistance Council in the 1930's?

3. When does Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

4. What is the general topic for the Solvay Conference?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the devices known as "windows" that give British bombers an advantage?

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

3. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

4. After the dropping of the bomb, who are the members of the Interim Committee Scientific Panel and what do they advocate? Are they successful?

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

6. What is J.J. Thompson's contribution to physics?

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

8. How does the first direct contact between nuclear physicists and the U.S. government occur?

9. What is the Manhattan Project?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the Potsdam Declaration. What is it? Who is involved? Given what is known at the time, is unconditional surrender the only choice? What is the Japanese response?

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast the opinions of Dwight Eisenhower and Curtis LeMay, two military leaders of the time, about the use of the atomic bomb. One is involved in the European war and the other in the Pacific war. Does this make a difference?

Essay Topic 3

Many scientific accomplishments go into making the atomic bomb possible. From the scientific standpoint, at what point does the atomic bomb become a possibility? Why? What scientist(s) are involved in this final break through?

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