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Atomic bomb political implications

Niels Bohr was a physicist, not a chemist. I devote a chapter to his life because he was the scientist who explained why Mendeleev s periodic table had the properties it did. Widely known as a soccer player in his youth, Bohr became the most influential physicist of the first half of the twentieth century. His life, too, was touched by political events. A Jew living in occupied Denmark, Bohr had to flee the country to avoid arrest by the Nazis. In 1939 Bohr discovered a theory that explained nuclear fission, and suggested that uranium 235 could be used to make a bomb. Though he played only a minor role in the American atomic bomb project, Bohr was the first to ponder the political implications of the bomb. [Pg.293]


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