Have noteworthy careers including several nobel prize winners. Fromirst, Cynthia Kelly the Atomic Heritage Foundation, discusses the origins and purposes of their oral history collection. The voices of the Manhattan Project is a website that contains 300 oral histories and we hoped someday will be the central repository of the memories of the Manhattan Project veterans. Tell us about the Manhattan Project itself. It was the effort in world war ii by the United States and its allies, primarily Great Britain and canada, to build an atomic bomb. Manhattan, just as you think, its after that island and now its part of new york city. But the project was run by the army corps of engineers, and while they toyed with a name that would be Something Like special materials project, and thought such a name would arouse suspicion, because it was sort of clumsy. Thehey follow traditions of army corps of engineers and name the project after the place where the projects headquarters were. And its headq
Mass, a particle consisting of matter. The Royal Academy of sciences decided to award the 2015 nobel prize in physics for the discovery of oscillations which shows that nutrinos have mass. He was part of a team that detected particles change. That proved they have mass. The discoveries were revealed in App International conference in 1998. His work surprised researchers around the world disproving the established theory that they dont have mass. Hes the 24 Nobel Prize Winner born in japan and the 11th to win the physics award. Three winners broke through for prizes in medicine. One is a japanese scientist devoting his life searching for microbes to improve global health. Heres more. Reporter he explained what made him continue his 60 years of research. Translator i always think of doing something for people all the time. This might have brought me to the prize. Reporter hes focus on finding cures for parasitic diseases, set to effect onethird of the global population, in particular, af
Manhattan Project National Historical Park will be opening up the park’s Victory and Pollinator Gardens on Saturday, June 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. EDT for a special program,
TRI-CITIES, Wash. - Rangers at the Manhattan Project National Historical Park will host a walking tour and a history hike in early May, according to a press release from the
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. (KRQE) – Los Alamos National Laboratory announced the date people can sign up for the free “behind the fence” tours of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park in Los Alamos. The exclusive, four-hour tours take participants inside Pond Cabin, where physicist Emilio Segrè’s team made the pivotal discovery that the Thin Man plutonium bomb […]