... the University of California in Berkley and did her graduate research on beta decay, form of radioactive energy. She got her Ph. D. in 1940. 10 points work experience Chein-Shuing Wu was asked to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project in which the atomic bomb was formed. She helped increase the amount of energy that they could get from the ... and she invented a method of separating two types of electrons emitted from the nuclei radioactive atoms. 20 points awards and achievements Some of Chein Shuing Wu's awards and achievements are that she won the Research Corporation Award in 1958...

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... helped in the advancement of modern warfare, by helping Robert Oppenheimer and Enrico Fermi in the creation of the atomic bomb. Although born in Germany, Albert Einstein indirectly helped the Allies win World War II and overcome Hitler's rampage for power. Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany on March 14, 1879 ... Technology in Zurich, after making up a few subject deficiencies. It is here that Einstein met a classmate, Mileva, who would be his future wife. Albert did not like the methods of instruction in the Institute, but he was able to pass his examinations for his degree and graduated ...

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... was born on March 14, 1879 in Ulm, Germany and grew up in Munich as a non-practicing Jew. He was born with a very large head that was oddly shaped. Albert took much longer to learn to talk than other children, and his parents feared he might be retarded, but he was born a genius. His father and Uncle owned an electrical ... equipment shop. It gave Albert an introduction to the power of science. He was fascinated by the power of electricity. He was a sensitive boy and never enjoyed school as a child. One day, when he was ... mind was stimulated by his uncle, an engineer, and by a medica...

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Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Bavaria, Deutschland on March 14, 1879. A year after he was born, his parets moved to Munchen. Despite him gowing to be a geneius, as a child his ... moved to Milan, but left him in Munchen as to finish his schooling. When Einstein turned 16, he was determined to get into the SFPI (Swiss Federal Polytechnical Institute). But Albert was failing Biology, Zoology, his language calss, and the works at the Institute, so for him they suggested prepatory school in Aarau, Switzerland. He did in fact go to the ... prep school and returned to SFPI for the full four ye...

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... his arm to create a burn. In 1900 the Quantum theory was advanced by one Max Planck, who stated that energy and matter are manifestations of the same thing. In 1905, Albert Einstein extended the Quantum Theory and said that the amount of energy of a piece of matter is equal to the mass of that body times the speed of light squared ... easy to handle in post-war negotiations. To intimidate them. Whatever the reason, or reasons, there was plenty of opposition to the use of the bomb in the first place. Albert Einstein opposed the use as well as General Leslie Groves. Groves headed the oper...

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... man-kind. The Nazis were capable to build an atomic bomb and that's because they had qualified engineers and uranium that they got from Czech mines. After acknowledging these information, Albert Einstein sent a letter to President Roosevelt on August 2, 1939. He explained to him how the element uranium can undergo fission and produce a massive amount of energy that can be used ... ...

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... it brought the world into the nuclear age and the new era of the cold war. The Manhattan Project was started during World War II as a response to a letter from Albert Einstein, Enrico Fermi, and Leo Szilard to President Roosevelt warning that "the Germans might be well on the way to creating a weapon, the use which might determine the outcome ... ...

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... whether what is good for science and technology is good for humanity. There must be a certain responsibility to an expert for what they have created. As an example, look at Albert Einstein's research in nuclear physics. After realising that a nuclear weapon was possible, he was going to stop research. However, considering the result of his actions he continued and created an ... ...

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... . Physicists in the United States and Europe had discovered that the fission of uranium could be used to create a deadly explosive weapon. A letter was sent to U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt by Albert Einstein that described this discovery and warned him of its potential dangers if developed by other nations. The Manhattan Project was established by the U.S. government in 1942 so the country ... ...

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... . One such time was when the creation of the nuclear bomb. Which was to be used in the Was in efforts to end it. In 1939, a group of scientists, including Albert Einstein, wrote a letter to President Roosevelt to warn of the Nazi s effort to purify Uranium-235, which would be used in the creation of a bomb of mass-destruction. This prompted ... ...

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... others wonder why it had to be over civilian homes and work places. Roosevelt knew all about the bomb. The bomb was under a top-secret name called. THE MANHATTEN PROJECT! Albert Einstein and other nuclear physicists persuaded Roosevelt to set up a program for a bomb of such destruction before the Nazis did. 12 days into Truman's reign as President he was notified ... ...

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... men went to Long Island where Einstein had stayed. These two men had told Einstein that they believe that Germany would be able to make an atomic bomb. They asked Albert Einstein to help them and alert the United States. Then Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt saying that an atomic bomb could be made. It had been about two or ... ...

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... them with neutrons. They found that the split atoms released neutrons and energy. Physicists found that the fission of these atoms could produce a chain reaction. In the summer of 1939 Albert Einstein wrote a letter to President Roosevelt explaining the potential for atom-splitting devices in warfare as well as the possibility of other countries possessing this information. In the summer of ... ...

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... create a "super bomb" by the fission of atoms. With the threat of Germany and the Soviets trying to harness this incredible power, United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, received a letter form Albert Einstein on August 2, 1939, stating that his field of physics had opened up a new possibility for extremely powerful bombs, and that the Germans were currently in the process of trying ... ...

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... bomb. So shortly after receiving the letter the president-started research of they're own and named it the Manhattan project. The project was headed by: Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and Albert Einstein. Both were German scientists and mathematician. The research and testing took place in central Tennessee, on Black Oak Ridge witch is now the leading center for research and production ... ...

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... total secrecy. Only a relatively small number of people knew the exact purpose of the project, which created the most powerful weapon ever used" (Encarta). The Manhattan Project was developed after Albert Einstein, a Jewish scientist wrote a letter to Franklin Delano Roosevelt and told him about the Germans making an atomic bomb. FDR was very concerned and got the smartest people he could ... ...

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... the bombing of Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The president at the time, Franklin D. Roosevelt, first heard about the possibility of an atomic bomb in October of 1939. He received a letter from Albert Einstein. The letter indicated that extremely powerful bombs of a new type could be built. Einstein made it clear that he wanted the United States to have the bomb before anyone ... ...

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... the Army Corps of Engineers in June 1942. The United States needed to build an atomic weapon before Germany or Japan did. It began with a letter to President Roosevelt by Albert Einstein. (Copy of this doc. at end of report). With the help of Leo Szilard, Einstein convinced President Roosevelt that Germany might just be using uranium and fission research to ... ...

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