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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. How does Hans Bethe learn of his dismissal from Tubingen University?

2. How many patents does Szilard apply for in Germany between 1924 and 1934?

3. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

4. When is Albert Einstein's theory of relativity proven through studies during an eclipse of the sun?

5. What does Chaim Weizmann discover that helps the war effort?

Short Essay Questions

1. Under what circumstances is teflon developed?

2. What is the response in the United States to the need of Jewish scientists to leave Germany and Europe?

3. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

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

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

6. Who is Vannevar Bush and what is his initial opinion of chain-reaction experiments in 1939?

7. What is nuclear physics?

8. What is the Balfour Declaration?

9. Why does Lise Meitner leave Austria and go to Copenhagen?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Robert Oppenheimer's role in the making of the atomic bomb. Be sure to Include his scientific accomplishments and his role at Los Alamos. Is the bomb built without him?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the development of the atomic bomb in Britain, Germany and Tokyo. What ends the development?

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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