Manhattan Project, U.S. government research project (1942-45) that produced the first atomic bombs. The project's name was derived from its initial location at Columbia University, where much of the early research was done. The first bomb was exploded in a test at Alamogordo air base in southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
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Hydrodynamics. Morgan and Archer Citation 10 describe Los Alamos's Theoretical Division's Lagrangian hydrodynamic shock calculations, implemented on IBM punched-card machines. Their paper presents the algorithmic advances made during the Manhattan Project by von Neumann that led to the late-1940s formulation of computational fluid dynamics by von Neumann and Richtmyer that is today the ...
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director ...
The Manhattan Project
This paper is the third in a series of Invited Comments in this journal on the topic of the Manhattan Project. The first paper dealt with the organization and physics of the Project, and the ...
Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the Anglo-American effort to build nuclear weapons during World War II. It is commonly regarded as one of the most successful, if controversial, mega-projects of the 20th century, bringing together scientific expertise, industrial production, and military coordination to create an entirely new industry, and new form of weaponry, in an unusually compressed timescale.
Nuclear Science for the Manhattan Project and Comparison to Today's
Nuclear physics advances in the United States and Britain from 1939 to 1945 are described. The Manhattan Project's work led to an explosion in our knowledge of nuclear science. A conference in April 1943 at Los Alamos provided a simple formula used to compute critical masses and laid out the research program needed to determine the key ...
The atomic bomb & The Manhattan Project (article)
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the secret US government research and engineering project during the Second World War that developed the world's first nuclear weapons. President Franklin Roosevelt created a committee to look into the possibility of developing a nuclear weapon after he received a letter from Nobel Prize laureate Albert Einstein in October 1939.
What Was the Manhattan Project?
The Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945—the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. By that time, the U.S. had spent around $2.2 billion —the ...
Research Guides: Columbia University Archives: Manhattan Project
George Braxton Pegram papers, 1903-1958 ... and American nuclear scientists prior to World War II that eventually led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. The National Defense Research Committee contracts for work on uranium and the Physics Department, correspondence, 1940-1947 (declassified in 1960), can be found in the "Atomic ...
Manhattan Project: The Story of the Century
He has published four textbooks and over 50 journal papers and semi-popular articles on the Manhattan Project; two of the texts are with Springer. In 2009 he was selected as Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions to promoting understanding of the history and physics of the Project.
The History and Science of the Manhattan Project
The author holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has published over 30 technical and semi-popular-level papers on the Manhattan Project and related nuclear history in publications such as American Journal of Physics, The Physics Teacher, European Journal of Physics, Natural Science, American Scientist, Physics & Society and Physics in Perspective.
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret research and development project during World War II that produced the first atomic bombs. Initiated in 1942, the project's primary objective was to develop nuclear weapons before Nazi Germany. Led by the United States with support from the United Kingdom and Canada, the project brought together the ...
The Manhattan Project
The Manhattan Project was the United States Army's program to develop and deploy nuclear weapons during World War II. In these devices, which are known popularly as 'atomic bombs', energy is released not by a chemical explosion but by the much more violent process of fission of nuclei of heavy elements via a neutron-mediated chain-reaction. Three years after taking on this project in mid ...
Canadian Contributions to the Manhattan Project and Early Nuclear Research
In addition to helping advance the world-changing research efforts of the Manhattan Project, the foresight of Canadian scientific leaders, such as C. J. Mackenzie, placed Canada among the global leaders in nuclear research following the war. ... The authors would like to thank the following colleagues for their assistance preparing this paper ...
Manhattan Project Notebook (1942)
Recorded here is the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, achieved on December 2, 1942. Eight months after the United States entered World War II, the federal government launched the Manhattan Project, an all-out, but highly secret, effort to build an atomic bomb - and to build one before the Germans did.
PDF Teaching social responsibility: The manhattan project
P.J. Gilmer and M. Du Bois, Science and Engineering Ethics (2002) 8, 206-210 206 Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2002 Keywords: social responsibility, Manhattan Project, teaching teachers, research ethics, science and responsibility, atomic bomb, nuclear weapon, nuclear bomb, ethical dilemma, Science, Technology and Society (STS), Public Health Service (PHS)
J. Robert Oppenheimer
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science. ... Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer became involved in nuclear research in 1941. His biopic, Oppenheimer, was released in 2023.
Manhattan Project
The OSRD formed the Manhattan Engineer District in 1942 and based it in the New York City borough of the same name. U.S. Army Colonel Leslie R. Groves was appointed to lead the project.. Fermi and ...
Teaching social responsibility: The manhattan project
This paper discusses the critical necessity of teaching students about the social and ethical responsibilities of scientists. Both a university scientist and a middle school science teacher reflect on the value of teaching the ethical issues that confront scientists. In the development of the atomic bomb in the US-led Manhattan Project, scientists faced the growing threat of atomic bombs by ...
Teaching social responsibility: the Manhattan project. Commentary on
This paper discusses the critical necessity of teaching students about the social and ethical responsibilities of scientists. Both a university scientist and a middle school science teacher reflect on the value of teaching the ethical issues that confront scientists. In the development of the atomic bomb in the US-led Manhattan Project ...
Oppenheimer Almost Discovered Black Holes Before He Became 'Destroyer
Before leading the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored a paper explaining that the most massive stars must eventually become what we would now call a black hole
History of Manhattan Project in US Research Paper
The Manhattan Project was a code name for a military project that was conducted during World War II between 1942 and 1946. It is however believed to have officially started in 1939 after President Roosevelt responded to a letter written by the famous physicist, Albert Einstein, expressing his concern that nuclear weapons were being developed by ...
Manhattan Project Research Paper
Manhattan Project Research Paper. 1534 Words7 Pages. Intro/Thesis: The news we hear today about nuclear weapons, ranging from the Iran Nuclear Deal to the North Korean bomb tests all stem from the secret project led by the United States during World War 2. The Manhattan Project, which started in 1942 lasting until 1946, saw the creation of two ...
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Manhattan Project, U.S. government research project (1942-45) that produced the first atomic bombs. The project's name was derived from its initial location at Columbia University, where much of the early research was done. The first bomb was exploded in a test at Alamogordo air base in southern New Mexico on July 16, 1945.
Hydrodynamics. Morgan and Archer Citation 10 describe Los Alamos's Theoretical Division's Lagrangian hydrodynamic shock calculations, implemented on IBM punched-card machines. Their paper presents the algorithmic advances made during the Manhattan Project by von Neumann that led to the late-1940s formulation of computational fluid dynamics by von Neumann and Richtmyer that is today the ...
The Manhattan Project was a program of research and development undertaken during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.It was led by the United States in collaboration with the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project was under the direction of Major General Leslie Groves of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.Nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer was the director ...
This paper is the third in a series of Invited Comments in this journal on the topic of the Manhattan Project. The first paper dealt with the organization and physics of the Project, and the ...
The Manhattan Project was the Anglo-American effort to build nuclear weapons during World War II. It is commonly regarded as one of the most successful, if controversial, mega-projects of the 20th century, bringing together scientific expertise, industrial production, and military coordination to create an entirely new industry, and new form of weaponry, in an unusually compressed timescale.
Nuclear physics advances in the United States and Britain from 1939 to 1945 are described. The Manhattan Project's work led to an explosion in our knowledge of nuclear science. A conference in April 1943 at Los Alamos provided a simple formula used to compute critical masses and laid out the research program needed to determine the key ...
The Manhattan Project was the codename for the secret US government research and engineering project during the Second World War that developed the world's first nuclear weapons. President Franklin Roosevelt created a committee to look into the possibility of developing a nuclear weapon after he received a letter from Nobel Prize laureate Albert Einstein in October 1939.
The Manhattan Project culminated in the Trinity test in New Mexico on July 16, 1945—the first detonation of a nuclear weapon. By that time, the U.S. had spent around $2.2 billion —the ...
George Braxton Pegram papers, 1903-1958 ... and American nuclear scientists prior to World War II that eventually led to the establishment of the Manhattan Project. The National Defense Research Committee contracts for work on uranium and the Physics Department, correspondence, 1940-1947 (declassified in 1960), can be found in the "Atomic ...
He has published four textbooks and over 50 journal papers and semi-popular articles on the Manhattan Project; two of the texts are with Springer. In 2009 he was selected as Fellow of the American Physical Society in recognition of his contributions to promoting understanding of the history and physics of the Project.
The author holds a Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and has published over 30 technical and semi-popular-level papers on the Manhattan Project and related nuclear history in publications such as American Journal of Physics, The Physics Teacher, European Journal of Physics, Natural Science, American Scientist, Physics & Society and Physics in Perspective.
The Manhattan Project was a top-secret research and development project during World War II that produced the first atomic bombs. Initiated in 1942, the project's primary objective was to develop nuclear weapons before Nazi Germany. Led by the United States with support from the United Kingdom and Canada, the project brought together the ...
The Manhattan Project was the United States Army's program to develop and deploy nuclear weapons during World War II. In these devices, which are known popularly as 'atomic bombs', energy is released not by a chemical explosion but by the much more violent process of fission of nuclei of heavy elements via a neutron-mediated chain-reaction. Three years after taking on this project in mid ...
In addition to helping advance the world-changing research efforts of the Manhattan Project, the foresight of Canadian scientific leaders, such as C. J. Mackenzie, placed Canada among the global leaders in nuclear research following the war. ... The authors would like to thank the following colleagues for their assistance preparing this paper ...
Recorded here is the world's first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction, achieved on December 2, 1942. Eight months after the United States entered World War II, the federal government launched the Manhattan Project, an all-out, but highly secret, effort to build an atomic bomb - and to build one before the Germans did.
P.J. Gilmer and M. Du Bois, Science and Engineering Ethics (2002) 8, 206-210 206 Science and Engineering Ethics, Volume 8, Issue 2, 2002 Keywords: social responsibility, Manhattan Project, teaching teachers, research ethics, science and responsibility, atomic bomb, nuclear weapon, nuclear bomb, ethical dilemma, Science, Technology and Society (STS), Public Health Service (PHS)
J. Robert Oppenheimer, the brilliant physicist behind the Manhattan Project, played a pivotal role in developing atomic weapons and forever changed the course of history with his contributions to nuclear science. ... Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer became involved in nuclear research in 1941. His biopic, Oppenheimer, was released in 2023.
The OSRD formed the Manhattan Engineer District in 1942 and based it in the New York City borough of the same name. U.S. Army Colonel Leslie R. Groves was appointed to lead the project.. Fermi and ...
This paper discusses the critical necessity of teaching students about the social and ethical responsibilities of scientists. Both a university scientist and a middle school science teacher reflect on the value of teaching the ethical issues that confront scientists. In the development of the atomic bomb in the US-led Manhattan Project, scientists faced the growing threat of atomic bombs by ...
This paper discusses the critical necessity of teaching students about the social and ethical responsibilities of scientists. Both a university scientist and a middle school science teacher reflect on the value of teaching the ethical issues that confront scientists. In the development of the atomic bomb in the US-led Manhattan Project ...
Before leading the Manhattan Project, J. Robert Oppenheimer co-authored a paper explaining that the most massive stars must eventually become what we would now call a black hole
The Manhattan Project was a code name for a military project that was conducted during World War II between 1942 and 1946. It is however believed to have officially started in 1939 after President Roosevelt responded to a letter written by the famous physicist, Albert Einstein, expressing his concern that nuclear weapons were being developed by ...
Manhattan Project Research Paper. 1534 Words7 Pages. Intro/Thesis: The news we hear today about nuclear weapons, ranging from the Iran Nuclear Deal to the North Korean bomb tests all stem from the secret project led by the United States during World War 2. The Manhattan Project, which started in 1942 lasting until 1946, saw the creation of two ...