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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. When does Adloph Hitler become Chancellor of Germany?

2. Where does Bohr teach in 1916?

3. What does Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner research together?

4. When does Rutherford suggest the existence of the neutron?

5. What is the topic of Enrico Fermi's fundamental paper?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

3. What city does General Groves remove from the target list for the atomic bomb and why?

4. What is the MAUD committee?

5. What is nuclear physics?

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

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

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

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

10. Why is Mor Karman famous?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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 3

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.

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