How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

01/01/2021 59 min Episodio 5
How it all began: Europe, fission, and the Nazis with Richard Rhodes (Pt. 1)

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Episode Synopsis


Today on My Nuclear Life, host Shelly Lesher speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Richard Rhodes. This conversation has been broken up into three parts. This Part 1 discussion includes topics like the beginning of nuclear science as a field until the Manhattan Project was approved.

You will hear parts of a speech in this episode given by Otto Hahn at the University of California, Berkeley and excerpt from Otto Frisch in 1967 from his talk called Fission: How it All Began.
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