Was born on March 8, 1879, in Frankfurt, Germany and was a German chemist. His dad was Heinrich Hahn and mom Charlotte Hahn. Otto was not the only child but was the. youngest of four boys - Karl, Heiner, Julius, and Otto. before he became famous he went to the university of Marburg to study chemistry. He was married to Edith Junghans and had one son in the year 1901, Otto earned his doctorate degree then went to military service for one year. After that one year, he went to work at the university that he attended as an assistant for chemistry. He then travelled to London to have increase his knowledge about chemistry and English. In 1906, he visited Montreal, there he was with Ernest Rutherford, when they looked at alpha-rays of radio actinium. …show more content…
He became a professor at the Kaiser Wilhelm institute in the year 1910, this lead him to becoming the head of the chemistry department. Hahn worked with the German army during the first world war, where he created poison for both the west and east front. Hahn after the war concentrated on chemistry, with Lise discovered Uranium Z. In the year 1936, he wrote a book named “Applied Radiochemistry” which was very helpful to many scientist. Later 1930s Hahn and his group were the first to figure out half the life of Uranium. In 1936 Hahn continued discovering and learning new things about how the Uranium split and can bomb with atoms, however they never got to finish creating a atomic bomb. In the second war, Hahn and fritz continued working their job and at the end of the war he was caught for working for the German nuclear programmed. After a couple of years, he was released in 1946. He was awarded a Nobel prize in 1944 for chemistry but could not attend because he was in jail. Hahn then found out the atomic bomb dropped in japan in the year 1945 and caused many issues. He was shocked and felt guilty that he was responsible for
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Dr. Josef Mengele was born on March 16, 1911 to his parents Karl and Walburga Mengele. He was the eldest child of three boys. He studied at Munich for Philosophy and studied at Frankfurt University for Medicine. In 1935 he was dismissed from Frankfurt University due to discrepancies in his racial views. He became apart of the Nazi party in the year of 1937. One year later he decided to join the S.S. (Schutzstaffelor Protection Squad). He married Irene Schonbein in 1939 and had one son named Rolf. After five years of being together he divorced her and married his late brothers wife Martha Mengele.
Otto von Bismarck was born on April 1st 1815, in Schonhausen, Northwest of Berlin in the district of Magdeburg. His father was an upper class, land owning Prussian more commonly known as a Junker. (World Book, 1999, p. 381) (German News, 1998, p.1)(Passant, 1966, p.45)(Godesky, 1997, p.1)(Compton's Encyclopedia, 1999, p.1) During his early education Otto von Bismarck studied law at the universities of Berlin and Gottingen.
possibility of atomic bombs. In 1941, he was brought into the atomic bomb project and was
Mengele was born March 16, in the year 1911 in Bavaria to Karl Mengele previous to WWI. Karl his father, happened to be a manufacturer of farming. Furthermore out of his siblings Josef Mengele was the oldest of them all. Meanwhile during his family’s lifetime, they ran a machine tools business together. As Mengele grew older he became well-known in his town as well as being labeled extremely smart and intelligent. Education took up a large portion of his life soon after that. This included studying in the field of Philosophy at the University Munich, also going to Frank...
Simon Wiesenthal life and legends were extraordinary, he has expired people in many ways and was an iconic figure in modern Jewish history. Szyman Wiesenthal (was his real named and later named Simon) was born on December 31 in Buczacz, Galicia (which is now a part of Ukraine) in 1908. When Wiesenthal's father was killed in World War I, Mrs. Wiesenthal took her family to Vienna for a brief period, returning to Buczacz when she remarried. The young Wiesenthal graduated from the Humanistic Gymnasium (a high school) in 1928 and applied for admission to the Polytechnic Institute in Lvov. Turned away because of quota restrictions on Jewish students, he went instead to the Technical University
Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kessewil, Switzerland. He lived between 1875 and 1961 and was the only son of his father, a protestant clergyman. His extended family had good educational background and although quite a number of them were clergymen, he plumped for higher education. Jung became a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who developed analytical psychology. Owing to his personal experience, he postulated the concepts of introversion and extraversion personality, collective unconscious and individuation resulting in the study of integration and wholeness.
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) succeeded in splitting the uranium atom and the Nobel Committee later awarded him the 1938 prize for physics. At Columbia University in New York, Fermi realized that if neutrons are emitted in the fissioning of uranium then the emitted neutrons might proceed to split other uranium atoms, setting in motion a chain reaction that would release enormous amounts of energy.(1) Fermi had succeeded in taking one of the first steps to making an atomic bomb.
About a month after that a man named Klaus Fuchs, a German physicist, was arrested for giving the Soviet Union secretive information to help them develop the atomic bomb. During World War II, Fuchs was positioned at the U.S. atomic development headquarters. Fuchs was giving the USSR information about the U.S. program, including the blueprint for the atomic bomb known as the “Fat Man”, that was later dropped in Japan. He also told them about everything the Los Alamos scientist knew involving the hypothesized hydrogen weapon.
J. Robert Oppenheimer was a brilliant physicist and known as the ”Father of the Atomic Bomb”. A charismatic leader of rare good qualities and commonplace flaws, Oppenheimer brought an uncommon sensibility to research, teaching, and government science. After help creating the atomic bomb with the Manhattan Project he was banned from the U.S. Government during the McCarthy Trials. He opposed the idea of stockpiling nuclear weapons and was deemed a security risk. Oppenheimer’s life reveals the conflict between war, science and how politics collided in the 1940’s through the 1960’s. His case became a cause "celebre" in the world of science because of its implications concerning political and moral issues relating to the role of scientists in government.
Born on August 30th, 1871 in New Zealand, Ernest Rutherford accomplished to be one of many successful chemists throughout the world in the 19th and the 20th centuries. With his brilliant experiments he explained the puzzling problem of radioactivity and the sudden breakdown of atoms. In addition, he determined the structure of the atom and was first to ever split it. Rutherford's great mind triggered innovations of new technology such as the smoke detector that saves many lives today.
The history of nuclear weapons began with the discovery of radioactivity elements, radium, polonium and uranium. These in turn led two German scientists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, to the discovery of nuclear fission and fusion. During the World War II the German’s active research on atomic bomb had prompted the US to secretly build the atomic bomb. The first atomic device was exploded at a site near Alamogordo New Mexico on July 16, 1945. This successful test had lead both US and Britain to believe and agree that the atomic bomb could bring a about Japanese’ surrender without an invasion and without Soviet’s help. The first atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945 followed by another in Nagasaki, Japan in August 9, 1945. The atomic bombs killed 140,000 civilians in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
In 1939 rumor came to the U.S. that Germans had split the atom. The threat of the Nazis developing a nuclear weapon prompted President Roosevelt to establish The Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer set up a research lab in Los Alamos, New Mexico and brought the best minds in physics to work on the problem of creating a nuclear weapon. Although most the research and development was done in Los Alamos, there were over 30 other research locations throughout the project. After watching the first nuclear bomb test Oppenheimer was quoted as saying simply “It works.”.
Richard P. Feynman was born in 1918 in Brooklyn; in 1942 he received his Ph.D. from Princeton. Already displaying his brilliance, Feynman played an important role in the development of the atomic bomb through his work in the Manhattan Project. In 1945 he became a physics teacher at Cornell University, and in 1950 he became a professor at the California Institute of Technology. He, along with Sin-Itero and Julian Schwinger, received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work in the field of quantum electrodynamics.
Wernher Von Braun, the “Father of Rocket Science” born March 23 1912 in what is now modern day Poland, was one of the lead scientists on Nazi Germany’s militarized rocket program. Von Braun graduated from the Technical University of Berlin in 1932 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He then went on to get a graduates degree in physics at Friedrich Williams University in Berlin in 1934. Von Braun was primarily interested in using rockets to reach outer space however with the rise of the Nazi Party he was encouraged to develop rockets for the German Military rather than for space exploration.