Leo Szilard, A name for nuclear energy, played a huge role in the early stages of atomic research. Szilard was born in Budapest, Hungary in 1898 as Leo Spitz who’s family changed their name shortly after in 1900. Szilard the son of an engineer, being born into an honorable Jewish family, took on the pristine lifestyle himself. Attending public school as he grew up took an interest in physics by the age of thirteen. Upon turning eighteen in 1917 Szilard was drafted into the Hungarian army. Szilard being a highly educated civilian for his age was sent to officer’s training school in the army. Szilard though suffered from a severe case of asthma did not have to server active duty. Following Szilard serving his country through World War 1, Szilard left for Berlin in 1919 to continue his education. “In Berlin, Szilard decided to indulge his intellect and study physics in an environment rich in the some of the greatest talent of his day, notably Max von Laue and Albert Einstein.” (Thomas, 2009) In 1922, with just a little more than two years of schooling, Szilard had earned his doctorates in Physics from The University of Berlin. Not long after finishing his studies Szilard then started postdoctoral work performing research at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics. Szilard focused his studies on nuclear physics alongside of the many pioneers of our early scientific voyage. Shortly after Szilard’s studies he became an instructor at the University of Berlin before fleeing Germany in 1933. With World War 2 on its way and Hitler’s rise to power in German in 1933 Szilard was forced to flee Germany to escape Nazi persecution. Szilard resided in London from 1933 through 1938. Within this time Szilard had worked as a research physicist at t... ... middle of paper ... ...ted Lanouette, W. (n.d.). "The Scientists' Petition:" A Forgotton Wartime Protest. Retrieved 11 3, 2013, from Atomic Heritage Goundation: http://www.atomicheritage.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63 Leo Szilard. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 3, 2013, from Atomic Archive: http://www.atomicarchive.com/Bios/Szilard.shtml Letter from Albert Einstein to FDR, 3/25/45. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 3, 2013, from PBS: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/primary-resources/truman-ein45/ Thomas, W. (2009, June 11). History and Historiography of Science. Retrieved 11 03, 2013, from Ether Wave Propaganda: http://etherwave.wordpress.com/category/ewp-primer/ Timeline of Events: 1938-1950. (n.d.). Retrieved 11 3, 2013, from Energy.gov Office of Management: http://energy.gov/management/office-management/operational-management/history/doe-history-timeline/timeline-events
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow graduated Hunter College as the first women to graduate in physics (Bauman et. al. 2011). She also led a way for acceptance and understanding of women’s role in science in America (Bauman et. al. 2011). She even inspired Mildred Dresselhous, who was a professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and president and officer of many Associations including American Association for the Advancement of Science, to pursue the career she wanted (Bauman et. al. 2011). Rosalyn born to Clara and Simon Sussman in New York City, on July 19, 1921 (Brody 1996). She married Aaron Yalow on June 6, 1943 and had two children named Elanna and Benjamin (Brody 1996). In 1977, Dr. Yalow won the Nobel Prize in medicine and was the second women to ever accept such an award (Brody 1996). She also taught physics in New York until 1950 when the Veterans Administration (during World War II) was interested in exploring and researching radioactivity (Brody 1996). As her life progressed, Dr. Rosalyn Sussman Yalow became an inspiration for young women who want to be recognized and achieve something in their life (Brody 1996). From when she was a child she was fascinated with science and decided to achieve something no women really does. Rosalyn Yalow went to school and started working in the science field, she managed to help the world of radioactivity and radioimmunoassay, how Mrs. Rosalyn impacted the world of science, how Dr. Yalow impacted the lives of other women, and how she never lost her passion for science even in her last years.
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This is the day Albert Einstein signed the letter that prompted the U.S.’s exploration into nuclear weaponry. Frankly put, he messed up. That letter led to the laughter of civilians at Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America is an experimental country - the first wholly democratic country – and it backfires sometimes. The Creed is warped to fit a definition of a moment and the wrong course of action is pursued. Einstein didn’t sign that latter with the intention of giving the world heartache and terror. He signed it to preserves the peace and it was hopelessly misconstrued. The only peace he can make with that decision is that it is one of those undervalued days in
physics. The work of Ernest Rutherford, H. G. J. Moseley, and Niels Bohr on atomic
Early Soviet nuclear physics in the 1920s and 1930s enjoyed success in many fields. David Holloway states, “In spite of the difficulties it faced, Soviet nuclear physics reached a high standard in the 1930s.” 1 Physicists such as Abram Ioffe, who studied under Röntgen, Igor Kurchatov, Kirill Sinel’nikov, and others were prominent and capable scientists who advocated and build many of the institutions in the new Soviet Union to support scientific research. Ioffe’s Physicotechnical Institute was one of these institutes. The Soviets did not actually lack from talented and intelligent physicists in the early years of scientific research...
Recent work has indicated that while certain sorts of science were annihilated under the Nazi administration, different sorts thrived. Sciences of a connected nature were particularly empowered, as were sciences that fit inside the bigger system of Nazi isolation and annihi...
They new the structure and particle makeup of atoms, as well as how they behaved. During the 1930Õs it became apparent that there was a immense amount of energy that would be released atoms of Gioielli 2certain elements were split, or taken apart. Scientists began to realize that if harnessed, this energy could be something of a magnitude not before seen to human eyes. They also saw that this energy could possibly be harnessed into a weapon of amazing power. And with the adven...
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From the day Pierre met Marie at a friend’s house, he was smitten. Together the scientific couple published over thirty papers on radioactivity. They could have become rich by patenting their process of extracting radium, but the Curies refused to do so. They were generous. They thought that scientific research should not be hidden but belong to everyone (Bailey). The Curie’s work, which dealt with changes in the atomic nucleus, led toward the modern understanding of the atom as an entity that can be split to release enormous energy (“Marie and Pierre Curie”).