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
scientists 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.
Your scientist |
Your name |
Francis W. Aston |
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Frederick Soddy |
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Henri Becquerel |
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Pierre & Marie Curie |
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H.C.Urey |
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C.T.R. Wilson |
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James Chadwick |
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Enrico Fermi |
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Ernest O. Lawrence |
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Glenn Seaborg |
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Irene Curie & Frederick Joliot |
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Donald Glaser |
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Fritz Strassmann |
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Otto Frisch |
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Otto Hahn |
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Lise Meitner |
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J. Robert Oppenheimer |
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Leo Szillard |
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Richard Feynman |
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Murray Gell-Mann |
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Leslie R. Groves |
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Edward Teller |
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