Sponsoring something because its all about boxing and reading and writing. And so are thrilled to present the section on paper or plastic and brother environmental and perhaps some brother choices that will be hearing about from the panel. Let me introduce our moderator and we will get the session going. A couple of logistical things first. There will be a brief signing after the session in the lobby. Library normally closes at 5 00 oclock on a saturday will be holding library open until 515 which is the conclusion of the session. Which means if you are not book site, we ask you to exit the building expediently as possible as there is another if it here this evening to. So to the order of business, barbara is the senior producing editor of environmental vertical. And has also been for the New York Times, technology or review. The boston globe magazine. Vessels producing Television Documentaries for pbs and the Discovery Channel in the History Channel and others. Shes also a former prof
Directed nobel winning scientists, engineers or military and the civilians who worked on the atomic bomb project in los alamos. Humans back to ancient greece have been wanting to split atom. Theyve talked about it in this individual able part of of matter. And so thats a concept that had been around for a while but humans still havent seen an atom i its so small we havent seen it there wasnt until the end of the 19th century that scientists started being able to tinker with doing things, smashing things together and kind of figuring out what came out kind of like you smash a car together and the carburetor comes out and not knowing what carburetor is. You go. We know that something in the car, but we dont know. So thats kind of in a very basic way what atomic physics was about. But then in 1938, two german physicists working berlin, strassman and hahn bombarded, this lump of material called your cranium, and they got a curious result. It kind of released a lot of heat. And then it crea
Scientists, engineers or military and the civilians who worked on the atomic bomb project in los alamos. Humans back to ancient greece have been wanting to split atom. Theyve talked about it in this individual able part of of matter. And so thats a concept that had been around for a while but humans still havent seen an atom i its so small we havent seen it there wasnt until the end of the 19th century that scientists started being able to tinker with doing things, smashing things together and kind of figuring out what came out kind of like you smash a car together and the carburetor comes out and not knowing what carburetor is. You go. We know that something in the car, but we dont know. So thats kind of in a very basic way what atomic physics was about. But then in 1938, two german physicists working berlin, strassman and hahn bombarded, this lump of material called your cranium, and they got a curious result. It kind of released a lot of heat. And then it created a different element
Military and the civilians who worked on the atomic bomb project in los alamos. Humans back to ancient greece have been wanting to split atom. Theyve talked about it in this individual able part of of matter. And so thats a concept that had been around for a while but humans still havent seen an atom i its so small we havent seen it there wasnt until the end of the 19th century that scientists started being able to tinker with doing things, smashing things together and kind of figuring out what came out kind of like you smash a car together and the carburetor comes out and not knowing what carburetor is. You go. We know that something in the car, but we dont know. So thats kind of in a very basic way what atomic physics was about. But then in 1938, two german physicists working berlin, strassman and hahn bombarded, this lump of material called your cranium, and they got a curious result. It kind of released a lot of heat. And then it created a different element that was further down on
Military and the civilians who worked on the atomic bomb project in los alamos. Humans back to ancient greece have been wanting to split atom. Theyve talked about it in this individual able part of of matter. And so thats a concept that had been around for a while but humans still havent seen an atom i its so small we havent seen it there wasnt until the end of the 19th century that scientists started being able to tinker with doing things, smashing things together and kind of figuring out what came out kind of like you smash a car together and the carburetor comes out and not knowing what carburetor is. You go. We know that something in the car, but we dont know. So thats kind of in a very basic way what atomic physics was about. But then in 1938, two german physicists working berlin, strassman and hahn bombarded, this lump of material called your cranium, and they got a curious result. It kind of released a lot of heat. And then it created a different element that was further down on