Manhattan Project Manhattan Project Alan Nunn May ( May 2, 1911 — January 12, 2003) was a British physicist and a spy who supplied secrets of British and American atomic bomb research to the Soviets during the Manhattan project. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alan Nunn May"
Albert Einstein ( March 14, 1879– April 18, 1955) was a German- Swiss- American theoretical physicist of Jewish descent, born in Ulm, Germany, who is widely regarded as the greatest scientist of the 20th century. He proposed the theory of relativity and also made major contributions to the development of quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and cosmology. He was awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize for Physics for his explanation of the photoelectric effect in 1905 (his " miracle year") and "for his services to Theoretical Physics." ...more on Wikipedia about "Albert Einstein"
Alfred Otto Carl Nier ( May 28, 1911 - May 16, 1994) was a US physicist who pioneered the development of mass spectrometry and used it in innovative ways to establish some major scientific results. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alfred O. C. Nier"
Alsos was an effort at the end of World War II by the Allies (principally Britain and the United States), branched off from the Manhattan Project, to investigate the German nuclear energy project, seize German nuclear resources, materials and personnel to further American research and to prevent their capture by the Soviets, and to discern how far the Germans had gone towards creating an atomic bomb. The personnel of the project followed close behind the front lines, first into Italy, and then into France and Germany, searching for personnel, records, material, and sites involved. ...more on Wikipedia about "Alsos"
Ames Laboratory is a United States Department of Energy national laboratory located in Ames, Iowa. Compared to most other DOE laboratories, it is small, employing about 500 people. It is located on the campus of Iowa State University. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ames Laboratory"
Arthur Holly Compton ( September 10, 1892 – March 15, 1962) won the Nobel Prize in Physics (1927) for discovery of the effect named after him. He served as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis from 1946 to 1953. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Compton"
Arthur Jeffrey Dempster ( August 14 1886 - March 11 1950) was a Canadian- American physicist best known for his work in mass spectrometry and his discovery of the uranium isotope 235U. ...more on Wikipedia about "Arthur Jeffrey Dempster"
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The B-Reactor at Hanford Site, Washington, was the first large scale plutonium production reactor ever built. The project was commissioned under the Manhattan Project, during World War II, to develop the first atomic bombs. The reactor was designed and built by the DuPont company based on experimental designs tested by Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago. The B-Reactor was completed in September of 1944, and was designed to operate at 250 kilowatts. The reactor was graphite moderated and water cooled. The plutonium for the Trinity device, tested in New Mexico, and the Fat Man bomb, later dropped on Nagasaki, Japan, ws created by irradiating Uranium-238 in B-Reactor. The B-Reactor operated through December of 1968. It is now in "interim safe storage" mode and is being turned into a museum. ...more on Wikipedia about "B-Reactor"
Berlyn B. Brixner (b. 1911) is best known as being the head photographer for the Trinity test, the first detonation of a nuclear weapon in July 1945. Brixner himself was stationed 10,000 yards away from the explosion itself, but had around 50 camera of different speeds running from different locations to capture the shot in full motion. Most photographs of the test were set up, arranged, and prepared by Brixner. ...more on Wikipedia about "Berlyn Brixner"
BOCKS CAR, (occasionally Bock's Car or Bocks Car) was the name of the U.S. Army Air Forces B-29 bomber (Serial Number 44-27297) which dropped the second nuclear weapon ever used in warfare, on Nagasaki, Japan on August 9, 1945. The weapon was known as " Fat Man". On the day of the attack Bockscar was manned by the crew of " The Great Artiste" and was commanded by Major Charles W. Sweeney of Massachusetts. ...more on Wikipedia about "Bockscar"
Boris T. Pash ( 1900 - 1995) was a US Army officer. ...more on Wikipedia about "Boris Pash"
A Calutron was a mass spectrometer used for separating the isotopes of uranium developed by Ernest O. Lawrence during the Manhattan Project. Its name is a concatenation of Cal. U.-tron, in tribute to the University of California, Lawrence's institution and the contractor of the Los Alamos laboratory. They were implemented for industrial scale uranium enrichment at the Oak Ridge, Tennessee Y-12 plant established during the war and provided much of the uranium used for the " Little Boy" nuclear weapon, which was dropped onto Hiroshima in 1945. ...more on Wikipedia about "Calutron"
On December 2, 1942, the world's first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction took place in the world's first nuclear reactor, Chicago Pile-1, shortened as CP-1, built on a racquets court under the abandoned west stands of the Alonzo Stagg Field stadium on the University of Chicago campus. Operation of CP-1 was terminated in February 1943 and the nuclear reactor dismantled and moved to the laboratory's Palos Park site A. It was reconstructed using CP-1 materials but enlarged with a radiation shield and named CP-2. It began operation in March 1943. ...more on Wikipedia about "Chicago Pile-1"
Chien-Shiung Wu (吳健雄 Pinyin: Wú Jiànxíong) ( May 31, 1912– February 16, 1997) was a female Chinese American physicist with an expertise in radioactivity. She worked on the Manhattan Project (to enrich the uranium fuel) and disproved the conservation of parity. Her nicknames to many scientists are " First Lady of Physics," " Madame Curie of China" and also "Madame Wu". ...more on Wikipedia about "Chien-Shiung Wu" Don't hesitate to contact stuff on shortopedia
Clarence Francis Hiskey ( 1912– 1998), born Clarence Szczechowski, became active in the Communist Party of the United States (CPUSA) when he attended graduate school at the University of Wisconsin. He became a professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, Columbia University and Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute. For a time Hiskey worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority and the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, part of the Manhattan Project. Hiskey's wife may have been involved in espionage also. ...more on Wikipedia about "Clarence Hiskey"
Cyril Stanley Smith ( October 4, 1903– August 25, 1992) was a renowned metallurgist and historian of science. Smith is perhaps most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals. ...more on Wikipedia about "Cyril Stanley Smith"
David Joseph Bohm ( December 20, 1917 Wilkes-Barre, PA– October 27, 1992 London, UK) was an American quantum physicist who made significant contributions in the fields of theoretical physics, philosophy and neuropsychology, and to scientists working on the Manhattan Project. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Bohm"
David Greenglass (b. 1922 in New York City) was recruited into Soviet espionage by his sister Ethel Rosenberg, who with her husband Julius Rosenberg were executed for committing conspiracy to commit espionage in 1953 for providing American nuclear secrets to the Soviet Union. Greenglass shared an interest in Communism with the Rosenbergs. He married Ruth in 1942, and they joined the Young Communist League shortly before Greenglass entered the U.S. Army in 1943. A talented machinist at the Army base in Jackson, Mississippi, Greenglass was promoted to sergeant assigned to the secret Manhattan Project, the wartime project to develop the first nuclear weapons. He was first stationed at the massive uranium enrichment facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and later worked at the secret Los Alamos laboratory in New Mexico. He later told how he slept through the first test of the atom bomb and made artificial diamonds at the laboratory. ...more on Wikipedia about "David Greenglass"
Edward Teller (original Hungarian name Teller Ede) ( January 15, 1908 – September 9 2003) was a Hungarian-born American nuclear physicist of Jewish descent. He was known colloquially as "the father of the hydrogen bomb". ...more on Wikipedia about "Edward Teller"
Edwin Mattison McMillan ( September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was the first scientist to produce a transuranium element. ...more on Wikipedia about "Edwin McMillan"
The Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists (ECAS) was founded by Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd in 1946. Its aims were to warn the public of the dangers associated with the development of nuclear weapons, promote the peaceful use of nuclear energy, and ultimately work towards world peace, which was seen as the only way that nuclear weapons would not be used again. ...more on Wikipedia about "Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists"
Emilio Gino Segrè ( February 1, 1905 – April 22, 1989) was an Italian American physicist who, with Owen Chamberlain, won the 1959 Nobel Prize in Physics for "their discovery of the antiproton." ...more on Wikipedia about "Emilio G. Segrè"
Enrico Fermi ( Rome, September 29, 1901 – Chicago, November 28, 1954) was an Italian physicist most noted for his work on beta decay, the development of the first nuclear reactor, and for the development of quantum theory. Fermi won the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on induced radioactivity. ...more on Wikipedia about "Enrico Fermi"
The Environmental Measurements Laboratory (EML), a United States government-owned, government-operated laboratory, is part of the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). A descendant of the Manhattan Project, EML was established in 1947. The Laboratory advances and applies the science and technology required for preventing, protecting against, and responding to radiological and nuclear events in the service of homeland and national security. ...more on Wikipedia about "Environmental Measurements Laboratory"
Ernest Orlando Lawrence ( August 8, 1890 – August 27, 1958) was an American physicist and Nobel laureate best known for his invention of the cyclotron in 1905. ...more on Wikipedia about "Ernest Lawrence" Things go better with www.shortopedia.com.
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