Visuals for Funding/Committee on Uranium
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Outline

  • Funding Science
  • The Committee on Uranium: Introducing the Occasion, characters & central questions
  • Crash Course on nuclear fission: Everything You Need to Know...for the reading
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  • Questions & Discussion
  • Epilog: The Manhattan Project & Funding after World War II

    1. Fermilab
    2. Name that source of funding?
    3. Carnegie Institution
    4. John D. Rockefeller in China
    5. Caracaol (Mayan observatory)
    6. Galileo and his military compass
    7. Java port (Jakarta)
    8. Alfred Nobel
    10. research expenditures [1997]
    11. cloud chamber
    17. HG Wells
    18. atomic model of Rutherford/Bohr

    22. Intro to Simulation

    23. Otto Hahn
    24. Carnegie Institution
    25. Jan. 1939 at the Carnegie Inst., demo of fission
    26. Leo Szilard
    27. Enrico Fermi
    28. Eugene Wigner
    29. Edward Teller
    30. Einstein & Szilard
    31. Alexander Sachs
    32. Lyman Briggs
    33. Dept. of Commerce
    34. Pulitzer winner Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb

      From the Committee on Uranium to the Manhattan Project

    35. Neils Bohr
    36. Lyman Briggs
    37. Vannevar Bush
    38. nuclear pile
    39. Tularosa Basin, New Mexico
    40. the "Gadget"
    41. first atomic explosion
    42. Ground Zero
    43. remains of test
    44. crew of the Enola Gay
    45. Hiroshima explosion
    46. . . . later
    47. Nagasaki explosion

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    48. letter, April 14, 1941
    49. Werner Heisenberg

      Post War Science

    50. radar
    51. proximity fuse
    52. penicillin
    53. DDT
    54. Nazi hypothermia experiment
    55. V2 rocket vapor trail
    56. national laboratories
    57. Vannevar Bush
    58. National Science Foundation
    59. journal growth
    60. paper announcing the top quark, 1995
    61. paper announcing the human genome, 2001
    62. distribution of research $$ [1997]
       
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