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. ...
1 What is an atomic bomb? The answer is a bomb whose violent explosive power is due to the sudden release of atomic energy resulting from the splitting of nuclei of a heavy chemical element by neutrons in a very rapid chain reaction. The Manhattan Project produced "Little Man" and "Fat Man", two ...
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). ...
