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2021 CAP Virtual Congress / Congrès virtuel de l'ACP 2021

6–11 Jun 2021
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R1-4 History of Physics II (DHP) / Histoire de la physique II (DHP)

R1-4
10 Jun 2021, 11:45
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R1-4 History of Physics II (DHP) / Histoire de la physique II (DHP)

  • Patrick Clancy (McMaster University)

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  1. 716. (I) Hunting for Lost Nazi Uranium
    Prof. Timothy William Koeth (University of Maryland (US))
    10/06/2021, 11:45
    History of Physics / Histoire de la physique (DHP)
    Invited Speaker / Conférencier(ère) invité(e)

    1944 saw the height of the United States Manhattan Project efforts which was distributed between Los Alamos New Mexico, Oak Ridge Tennessee, and Hanford Washington. Since the Manhattan Project was spurred by the fear that Germany was building her own nuclear weapons, Allied anxiety continuously pondered the Nazi atomic progress. As Germany began to fall to the Allies, Gen. Groves commissioned...

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