HISTORY 124A Lecture Notes - Lecture 38: Los Alamos National Laboratory, Morrill Land-Grant Acts, An American Dilemma
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Making the bomb: pierre (1859-1906) and marie currie (1867-1934) shared the. 1903 nobel prize in physics: ernest rutherford (1871-1937) became the first person to split the atom in 1917, oliver lawrence (1901-1958) invented the cyclotron in 1929, leo szilard (1898-1964) Einstein at his long island vacation home and draft a letter to. Roosevelt briefing him on the advances in physics: 1939, october 11 alexander sachs, an economist with access to the white house, carries einstein"s message to. Roosevelt: 1941, october 9 scientists vanneavar bush and james. Conant meet with roosevelt and vice president henry a. The president commits to all necessary research, but not yet developing an actual bomb: 1942, june the army begins the manhattan project to build the atomic bomb, overseen by general leslie groves (1896- Robert oppenheimer (1904-1967), the director of los. Required immense amount of machinery, plant, and other resources.
