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History 181B:  Modern Physics
Class 31 (4/4/01)
Advancing nuclear physics
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Outline Presentation:  How Oppenheimer and Lawrence were brought to Berkeley

Lawrence's cyclotrons
     More than a physicist
     Big Science
     What Lawrence was good at, and what he was not

Making progress in nuclear physics (start)

     Induced radioactivity and the transuranics
Names and terms 
Primary Secondary
Ernest Lawrence (1901-1958), NP 1939
Frédéric Joliot (1900-1958) and
Irène Joliot-Curie (1897-1957), NP 1935 (chemistry)
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954), NP 1938
Otto Hahn (1879-1968), NP 1944 (chemistry)
Fritz Strassmann (1902-1980)
Lise Meitner (1878-1968)
Otto Robert Frisch (1904-1979)
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