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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. Where is particle acceleration developed?

2. Who does Enrico Fermi team with to separate iodine isotopes?

3. What theoretical physicist moves to Manchester when he is twenty seven year old for experience working with radioactivity?

4. What does Max Planck discover?

5. Who envisions atoms as small billiard balls?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the character of Budapest in the early 1900's?

2. Why is Hiroshima chosen to be the first target for the bomb?

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

4. What is Oppenheimer's "Los Alamos Primer"?

5. What patent does Leo Szilard apply for in 1934 and where?

6. How does President Roosevelt authenticate his decision to expedite the research of the atomic bomb?

7. What two scientists come to Berkeley in 1928-1929 and what do they develop?

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

9. Why is the neutron important to nuclear physics?

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

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

Discuss how the United States government becomes involved in the atomic bomb. Discuss the roles of scientists and non-scientists, including Vannevar Bush, Enrico Fermi, Leo Szilard, Albert Einstein, Alexander Sachs, Lyman Briggs. What is the government's initial response? Does everyone in the government have the same attitude?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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