History 181B (Spring 2001) - Class 37 (4/18/01)

History 181B: Modern Physics
Class 37 (4/18/01)
Physics, politics, and the state

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The Manhattan Project

Self-mobilization

     The Berkeley contribution
          Cyclotrons into calutrons
          Artificial radioactivity and radiochemistry
          Administrative leadership

Administrative structures
Why did it work?

Presentation: the Scientists' Movement

Names and terms

Primary	Secondary
Manhattan Engineer District (Army Corps of Engineers) Gen. Leslie Groves (1896-1970) Metallurgical Laboratory (Met Lab), University of Chicago Hanford (WA) Oak Ridge (TN) Los Alamos (NM)	Vannevar Bush (1890-1974) James Conant (1893-1978)