Word: atomics
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Oppenheimer explained that the contradictions at the atomic level occurred over these questions: 1) how does matter move and what are the forces at work on it; 2) what is the nature of light; and 3) how can one define the atom...
Finally, the atom's very shape and nature was at once elucidated and complicated by Rutherford's experiments and Bohr's subsequent theory of the hydrogen atom. The idea of agitated orbital states, defined in integral multiples of Planck's constant seriously contradicted the vision of classical mechanics
From one of West Germany's principal nuclear-research centers, the Max Planck Institute of Physics in Göttingen, came an unexpected rejoinder. Led by four Nobel Prizewinners-among them 77-year-old Otto Hahn, the first man to split the uranium atom-18 scientists proclaimed their "great worry" over Adenauer's proposal. One hydrogen bomb, they warned, could render the whole Ruhr Valley "uninhabitable." Worse yet, "the entire West German Republic could be rubbed out" by spreading radioactivity. The hooker: all 18 pledged themselves not to help the West German government...
...education program. At the National Education Association's centennial celebration banquet in Washington, he made his most eloquent plea: "Our schools are more important than our Nike batteries, more necessary than our radar warning nets, and more powerful even than the energy of the atom." To foster that power he asked "federal help to correct an emergency situation." And he meant emergency. "After these new schools are built," he said, "after the bricks are laid and the mortar is dry, the federal mission will be completed...
...again rewarded, this time for his work on peaceful use of the atom and his, promotion of international cooperation among scientists. Nuclear Physicist Bohr, the founding nucleus of Denmark's famed Institute of Theoretical Physics, was chosen by Atoms for Peace Awards, financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund, to receive its first annual prize: $75,000 and a gold medal...