1. Albert Einstein
In August 1939, German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. ... Albert Einstein thought up the first atomic bomb in the late thirties. ... In August 1939, German American physicist Albert Einstein sent a letter to U.S. president Franklin D. ...
Just before the beginning of World War II, Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Franklin D. ... Urged by Hungarian-born physicists Leo Szilard, Eugene Wingner, and Edward Teller, Einstein told Roosevelt about Nazi German efforts to purify Uranium-235 which might be used to build an atomic bomb. ... "The first successful experiments in splitting a uranium atom had been carried out in the autumn of 1938 at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Berlin"(Groueff 9) just after Einstein wrote his letter. ...
Earlier in the century, Albert Einstein predicted that mass could be converted into energy early in the century and was confirmed experimentally by John D. ... They insisted that Albert Einstein inform President Roosevelt about the possibility of the Germans making an atomic bomb. ...
The United States had started the developing the bombs in 1939, when Albert Einstein wrote a letter to F.D.Roosevelt, regarding the theory of special relativities, "It may become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction in a large mass of uranium . that extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed" (Lawton). The original reason that led the U.S. to develop Einstein's theory, was the nuclear race between the US and Germany. ... " Einstein also commented that had he known then, that his discovery of the nuclear theories would lead to this, he would have become...
On August 6, 1945 and August 9, 1945 were days in history like no other (Alperovitz 2). Only one country in history has ever used an atomic bomb against another nation, the United States of America, code named the Manhattan Project (Lewis 1). The atomic bombs were being developed to use against Japa...
August sixth, 1945 a devastating day for some and a victorious day for others. August 6th was the day the United States government chose to drop the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima and in one flash the world was introduced to the new atomic age. The United States and the Soviet Union were in an arms...
Julius Robert Oppenheimer was born on April 22, 1904 in New York City to German-Jewish parents. When he was a child, he had a strong interest in mathematics and science. He was also interested in minerals. At age 11, he had become an elected member of the New York Mineralogical Club. He r...
Frustrated with the idea that Germany might produce an atomic bomb first, Leo Szilard and other scientists asked Albert Einstein, a famous scientist during that time, to use his influence and write a letter to president FDR, pleading for support to further research the power of nuclear fission (Badash 237). ...