Atomic bomb German work

Almost, but not entirely - and that was what worried people like Szilard. He was sure that German physicists working under the Nazis would foresee the same possibility, and that they would try to build a bomb. As indeed they did, although the German atomic bomb project, led by physicist Werner Heisenberg, never got very... 

After replicating the German fusion of the uranium atom in early 1939, Fermi was recruited to join the secret U.S. atomic bomb project, the Manhattan Project. He initially worked at the project s metallurgical laboratory at the University of Chicago, where he was chief designer of an atomic pile that achieved a sustained nuclear reaction on December 2, 1942. Throughout the war he worked on reactor design and fissionable fuel production at several project facilities. 

It should be noted that, during the atom bomb project, a number of German and Austrian scientists had been coerced (or volunteered) to assist in the development work. These included the Nobel Prize winner Gustav Ludwig Hertz (22 July 1887-30 October 1975), Baron Manfred von Ardeime (20 January 1907-26 May 1997), Peter Adolf Thiessen (6 April 1899-5 March 1990), Max Volmer (3 May 1885-3 Jtme 1965), Nikolaus Riehl (24 May 1901-2 August 1990), and Rudolf Heinz Pose (10 April 1905-13 November 1975). They were not released until 1953. Most famous of all, Max Volmer returned to the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and eventually became the President of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. 

Max Born, 1882-1970, a German physicist, shared with Walter Bothe the Nobel Prize for physics for 1954 Robert Oppenheimer, 1904-1967, American nuclear physicist, worked on production of the atomic bomb. 

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