Otto Hahn

This project started after Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, of Germany, discovered nuclear fission (Reed, 2011). Nuclear fission is the splitting of atomic nuclei with very precise calculations into plutonium or uranium. The United States did not want Germany to gain so much power from…

Invisible Yet Deadly In 1938 German Otto Hahn and his assistant Fritz Strassmann discovered that when uranium is bombarded with neutrons, through the process known as fission, there are two lighter elements, neutrons, and a large amount of radiation produced. It was clear that these neutrons could in turn also cause fission, producing more neutrons and developing a chain reaction which might spread throughout all the uranium present (Rinkesh). This fission reaction showed a lot of potential,…

History and Controversy of Nuclear Power The creation of nuclear energy has changed the world but, it has affected someone people a little bit closer. Lindsey Schiller, a registered nurse, and her husband and two children have been living next to a nuclear power plant almost a decade now. Currently neighboring the Limerick Generating Station nuclear energy facility in Pottstown, Schiller jokingly states “We kid around when we get really big flowers ... we 're under the power plant, and I kid…

The Manhattan Project was a research and development project undertaking during World War 2 that produced the first nuclear weapons. Some people believe that the dropping of these atomic bombs and the development of the Manhattan project was very necessary and it needed to be done. But on the contrary, some think it was a waste of money, time, and it was not used for the good of the war and it was dropped on thousands of innocent people. The Manhattan Project was a great step in gaining…

radiation was a property of atoms. Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to win 2. In 1927, Herman Blumgart uses a radioactive tracer (nuclear medicine) to diagnose heart disease. In 1938, two German scientists, named Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, had demonstrated nuclear fission. They out found that they could split the nucleus of a uranium atom by cannonading it with neutrons, to the uncharged part of atom. In 1942, Enrico Fermi a scientist who showed the first…

“We knew the world would not be the same,” Robert Oppenheimer says slowly [1]. He swallows, and continues, keeping his eyes downcast. “A few people laughed, a few people cried, most people were silent.” This man, known as the stalwart powerhouse behind the Manhattan Project, now stumbles over his words. He wipes his eyes dry, trying to keep his voice level. “I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and…

“10 Days That Unexpectedly Changed America” by Steven M. Gillon is an extraordinarily written book about the course of history that swept through America. The author covered crucial topics that covers the span of American history from settlement to recent past and reveals the great diversity of our national experience. Of all the 10 chapters, I chose three that made a more significant appearance to me. The three chapters include: “Gold Rush”, “Murder at Fair: The assassination of President…