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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 can Von Karman do at age six that show he is a prodigy?

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

3. Who is the token American at the Solvay Conference?

4. What two scientists are known to work together on gas warfare in German-occupied Brussels?

5. After World War I, the Cavendish Laboratory at Cambridge becomes the center for what science?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why is Mor Karman famous?

4. Where is the center for experimental physics after World War I?

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

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

7. Who produces the first controlled nuclear fission reaction and where and when does it take place?

8. Who suggests the existence of the neutron and who works with him to prove it?

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

10. President Roosevelt wants policy considerations regarding the making of the atomic bomb limited to the "Top Policy Group". Who is in this group and who is excluded?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss Niels Bohr's analysis of the nuclear arms race to come. How does the existence of the atomic bomb change the world? What proposals does Bohr have?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the various facilities involved with the Manhattan Project. Where are they located? Who operates them? What is their function? Are they all built at once?

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