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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. Why is Yehudi Menuhim famous?

2. Who designs the first working cyclotron?

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

4. What is the name of Bohr's wife?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to the Nobel Prize medals that Max Von Laue and James Franck had given Niels Bohr for safekeeping?

2. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

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

4. What is Chaim Weizmann's discovery that helps the British war effort?

5. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?

6. What is Bohr's relationship to the period table?

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

8. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?

9. Who is Fritz Haber and how does his wife die?

10. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?

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

The United States is developing two types of atomic bombs. Compare and contrast these bombs. What are their code names?

Essay Topic 3

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.

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