![]() The scientists were not quite sure how much they would need for a bomb but they knew they needed to produce lots of the 235 isotope. It was decided that U235 was the best material to use in a bomb but this isotope was only present in small amounts in uranium. There was a group of nuclear physicists at Columbia who decided to attack the problem of nuclear fission and were uniquely qualified to develop the first nuclear bomb when war broke out. in chemistry but he was also a gifted mathematician and it was his mathematical skills that Urey needed in working on problems of nuclear physics. ![]() ![]() In 1938, newly married Karl Cohen got a job at Columbia University in the lab of Harold Urey, a Nobel Laureate in Chemistry. Show More notes at the end at what point reality merged into fiction. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |