Scientist who Contributed to World War II
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Otto Frisch was born into a Jewish family in Vienna, Austria, in 1904. He studied science and received his doctorate in 1926( Simkin). When Hitler came to power he fled from Nazi Germany. Otto worked in Copenhagen until 1940 and then he went England to work on atomic research. In 1943 Frisch joined the Manhattan Project, in the United States. HE helped develop the bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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James Chadwick, much like Otto Frisch helped build atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. He was also in the Manhattan Project. In 1932 Chadwick discovered the particle in the nucleus of an atom that became known as the neutron because it has no electric charge(Simkin). After the war Chadwick returned to Liverpool University until moving to Cambridge University (1948-58). James Chadwick died in Cambridge on 24th July, 1974.
Albert Einstein was born of Jewish parents in Ulm, Germany, in 1879. As a Jew, Einstein suffered a great deal of prejudice in Germany. When Adolf Hitler came to power in 1933 Einstein was in California. His house was immediately attacked by the Sturm Abteilung (SA). After being told what had happened Einstein decided not to return home. Instead he toured Europe making speeches explaining what was taking place in Nazi Germany (Simkin). In 1934 Einstein immigrated to the United States where he became a professor of mathematics at Princeton. He was no longer a pacifist and argued that democratic nations needed to rearm in order to defend itself against the aggressive foreign policy of Adolf Hitler and Nazi Germany (Simkin). In 1939 Einstein warned President Franklin D. Roosevelt that German scientists were in a position to develop an atomic bomb. This encouraged Roosevelt to establish the Manhattan Project.
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Published May 12, 2015
Published May 12, 2015