HIS-3464 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Leo Szilard, Vannevar Bush, The Physicists
Document Summary
German physicists and debates on the nature of the electron. Leo szilard: german physicist that lives in england. Writing about things like nuclear weapons: believes that the neutron is responsible for the burning. Wells: the role of sci fi, writes the world set free book that mentions the idea of a bomb that continues to burn forever. The idea of the neutron: patent it, give it to uk. Another war: allies and axis (germany, italy, japan) The path not taken heisenberg and bohr. Enrico fermi: doing a secret experiment under the football stadium in an underground squash court. Creates a chain reaction and creates nuclear energy: university of chicago, squash court. Creating a vast network of labs (superlabs) Moving from nuclear energy from a squash court to energy in a lab. One of the most important in the 20th century. Trinitite: formed out of the sand in the desert and created glass from the heat of.
