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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. Who is the financial mainstay of pioneering Jewish settlements in Palestine when World War I begins?
2. What does J.J. Thompson discover?
3. In the 1930's, where do Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, and Fritz Strassman work when they are trying to sort out the elements created by neutron bombardment of the heaviest elements?
4. When does the Solvay Conference in Brussels take place?
5. What instrument does Frisch use to prove the nucleus splits?
Short Essay Questions
1. In the mid 1930's, what scientist does Leo Szilard team up with and what is the subject of their experiments?
2. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?
3. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?
4. Why does the Fermi family have to leave Italy?
5. What is General Dwight Eisenhower's reaction to the dropping of the atomic bombs?
6. What is the response in the United States to the need of Jewish scientists to leave Germany and Europe?
7. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?
8. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?
9. In 1939-1940, what does Robert Oppenheimer do that makes Robert Oppenheimer a true genius in the eyes of the author?
10. Why does Bohr win the 1922 Nobel prize?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What are the emotional effects of the creation of the atomic bomb on scientists? Does it effect all scientists the same way? Discuss specific scientists' response, including Leo Szilard and Robert Oppenheimer. In your answer discuss the Interim Committee Scientific Panel and its response.
Essay Topic 2
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?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss Trinity and Silverplate. What are they? What is their role in the dropping of the atomic bombs? Who are the people involved?
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