The Making of the Atomic Bomb, by Richard Rhodes, initially focuses on a crucial period in the life of a nuclear physicist and refugee from Nazi Germany, who eventually petitioned Albert Einstein to write the famous letter to President F. D. Roosevelt that set in motion what would eventually be called the Manhattan Project. Who was this physicist?
a. Niels Bohr
b. Edward Teller
c. Leo Szilard
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a. Niels Bohr
b. Edward Teller
c. Leo Szilard
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Richard Rhodes
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born
July 04, 1937
gender
male
place of birth
Kansas City, Kansas, The United States
genre
Science, Nonfiction
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Richard Lee Rhodes is an American journalist, historian, and author of both fiction and non-fiction (which he prefers to call "verity"), including the Pulitzer Prize-winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1986), and most recently, Arsenals of Folly: The Making of the Nuclear Arms Race (2007). He has been awarded grants from the Ford Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation among others. He is an affiliate of the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. He also frequently gives lectures and talks on a broad range of subjects to various audiences, including testifying before the U.S. Senate on nuclear energy.
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"Before it is science and career, before it is livelihood, before even it is family or love, freedom is sound sleep and safety to notice the play of morning sun."
— Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
— Richard Rhodes (The Making of the Atomic Bomb)
