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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 topic of Bohr's first published scientific paper?

2. In the 1920's/1930's, what is the world's largest source of radioactive polonium?

3. Who recruits Bohr for research in in radioactivity in Manchester?

4. Who becomes the first unconverted Jew ennobled since the Middle Ages?

5. When does Ernest Lawrence win the Nobel Prize in Physics for producing a working model of the cyclotron?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is Hiroshima chosen to be the first target for the bomb?

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

4. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

5. What is Trinity, who selects the name and why?

6. Why do the Jewish Hungarian scientists leave Hungary?

7. What is the MAUD committee?

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

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

10. What are "banzai charges"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many of the scientists involved with the making of the atomic bomb in the United States are refugees from Europe. Choose three of these refugee scientists. Discuss why they leave their homeland , how they arrive in the United States and what their role is in the making of the bomb.

Essay Topic 2

How are the target cities for the bombs chosen? What are the considerations that go into their choice? Why are Hiroshima and Nagasaki the final two choices?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the beginnings of the Manhattan Project. What is it? How does it get started? Who is involved in setting it up? What is the U.S. government's role in the project? What is the role of General Leslie Groves?

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