Otto Hahn

Otto von Bismarck was a master of foreign affairs and a great politician at his time. He effectively ruled Prussia first and then all of Germany, between 1862 and 1890. His solution to never having war was to create a system of alliances to making it mutually beneficial to all of the great powers and therefore protect his newly united Germany and allowing it to strengthen. Bismarck's objective of the foreign policy was to keep peace among the people. Bismarck saw France taking revenge on…

“Henrietta Lack’s cells thrived. In weight, they now far surpassed the person of their origin and there would probably be more than sufficient to populate a village of Henriettas” (237). According to the quote above, the amount of cells from one woman’s body is compared to the population of one village. How could this be? Rebecca Skloot, the author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, first started learning about HeLa cells in school, but was more curious to know the origin of the cells.…

In our assignment for this week we are to figure out how Hela Cells should be handled both ethically and legally. Back in the 1950 they really did not have the laws we do now, but to be ethically correct in this case I feel that the doctor should have told her that he was taking cells to perform testing on and to get her permission before doing his testing on those cells. But when it came to those days if you were poor and could not afford treatment because of color I guess it didn’t matter to…

in its historical impact, has only existed in its present, unified form for less than 150 years. Over its short lifetime, Germany has enjoyed, and endured, a number of rulers, but none, perhaps, was so great an influence on modern Germany as Prince Otto von Bismarck the ‘Iron Chancellor’ of Germany. After hundreds of years of war, which stretched from the beginning of the ancient Roman Empire to the present time, Bismarck transformed the region of Germany…

The German Unification Stated when Wilhelm I become the king of Prussia following the death of his brother in 1861. A year into being king he assigned Otto von Bismarck (who was often referred to as Iron Chancellor) as his chief minister. Although Willian was king, Bismarck manipulated the king into using royal decrees to avoid the power of elected officials. To establish Prussian power in Europe he manipulated European rivalries and started a series of wars with Austria, Denmark, and France.…

The novel “The Life of Henrietta Lacks” raises many controversies between ethics and science due to the fact that ethics was not yet a crucial role in science. Scientists have been experimenting on Henrietta’s cells (HeLa) cells for decades, and even now the cells are being used in labs. Since the HeLa cells divide indefinitely, scientists can study and analyze them without running out of supplies. Over the years, these cells have greatly contributed to science, but more specifically, the…

Moore was accused of trying to make a quick buck off the scientists who saved his life by removing his cancerous spleen, his plea for three billion dollars was denied having made it all the way to the supreme court. As a result of these cases having come from times in history without adequate legislation on tissue donation by which to comprehend the processes and limitations of tissue donation and property rights, Lacks and Moore both ended up in less than perfect standing. Lacks died poor, her…

The first ever successful nuclear fission test was preformed four years later in 1938 by German scientists Otto Hahn, Lise Meitner and Fritz Strassman. Lise Meitner was forced by the Nazi to leave Germany because her citizenship had been revoked and she moved to Sweden. During her the time in Sweden, Hahn and Fritz wrote to her about an experiment they had recently performed back in Nazi Germany. The experiment consisted of bombarding uranium with neutrons…

order to discover her accomplishment which in this case is the discoverment of nuclear fusion. Lise Meitner is an austrian physicist who worked on radioactivity and nuclear physics. In the website Atomic Archive it states “Meitner was part of [the] Hahn-Meitner-Strassmann team that worked on transuranium elements...”. Meitner was a part of this team that had helped her with her succession of discovering nuclear fission. Meitner was the third child of eight in her Jewish Family. Later on she…

It all started in 1938 when the first discovery of the atomic bomb was found known as fission. Top physicists from different countries were gathered to help make the deadliest weapon in the world. The government entrusted these physicists with the secret of constructing the atomic bomb so other countries like the Soviet Union and Germany would not figure out their detailed plan. Although they were given that oath to secrecy, inside the walls of Los Alamos the Laboratory used for the building of…