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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 Isador Isaac Rabi become a Nobel laureate in physics?

2. Where does Leo Szilard study engineering?

3. When World War I begins, Bohr moves from Denmark to where?

4. In 1939, who is President of Carnegie Institute and is reluctant to invest in chain-reaction experiments?

5. By 1920, Jews make up what percent of Hungary's financiers?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does the Little Boy, minus uranium target pieces, arrive on Tinian?

3. Why or how does Bohr get to Manchester?

4. What are the devices known as "windows" that give British bombers an advantage?

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

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

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

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

9. What does Albert Einstein, who leaves Germany, want to do for displaced German scientists?

10. What instrument does Rutherford and Hans Gieger work on together and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The discovery of the neutron is considered the beginning of nuclear physics. Why? What role does this discovery have in the making of the atomic bomb? Is the bomb built without this discovery?

Essay Topic 2

From the theoretical discussion of nuclear energy to the making of the atomic bomb is a relatively short period of time. Discuss what effect the wars have on this development. Would the bomb be developed as rapidly without the reality of the wars?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the Japanese determination never to surrender. Give examples from the war in the Pacific. What role does this play in the use of the atomic bomb?

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