Noteworthy People in Nuclear Physics

This exercise is intended to focus your attention on the people whose work made physics what it is. Choose one of the scientists whose names are listed below. Prepare a biographical sketch of your scientist. I am interested in the scientist’s professional accomplishments as well as his/her personal life. A written summary of your thougts, on the order of 600 words in length, will be due at the appointed day and time whether you are present in school or not. You must file it electronically at my email address. It should be written in the style prescribed by the English department. Be sure to include a bibliography of sources of information and include web site addresses as necessary.
Students in other classes may be doing similar work on your scientist. It is my expectation that each of you will work independently of the others. I take a dim view of plagiarism. Woe be unto him or her who lifts sentences from an internet source without the necessary citation.

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 Mechanics

 Optics

 E & M

 Thermodynamics

 Atomic

Your scientist

Your name

 Francis W. Aston

 Frederick Soddy

 Henri Becquerel

 Pierre & Marie Curie

 H.C.Urey

 C.T.R. Wilson

 James Chadwick

 Enrico Fermi
 

 Ernest O. Lawrence
 

 Glenn Seaborg
 

 Irene Curie & Frederick Joliot
 

 Donald Glaser
 

 Fritz Strassmann
 

 Otto Frisch
 

 Otto Hahn
 

Lise Meitner
 

 J. Robert Oppenheimer
 

 Leo Szillard
 

 Richard Feynman
 

 Murray Gell-Mann
 

 Leslie R. Groves
 

 Edward Teller