Briggs, Lyman

Briggs." Lyman" has shown that there is a general relationship between Kqc and the properties of the molecule ... 

Bush, Vannevar. 1954. Lyman J. Briggs and atomic energy. Scientific Monthly, 78 275. -------. 1970. Pieces of the Action, William Morrow. 

Albert Einstein s 1939 letter to President Franklin Roosevelt reporting the possibility of German atomic bomb research led FDR to appoint a Uranium Committee headed by ineffectual Bureau of Standards director Lyman J. Briggs (left). 

President Roosevelt responded to the call for government support of uranium research quickly but cautiously. He appointed Lyman J. Briggs, director of the National Bureau of Standards, head of the Advisory Committee on Uranium, which met for the first time on October 21, 1939. The committee, including both civilian and military representation, was to coordinate its activities with Sachs and look into the current state of research on uranium to recommend an appropriate role for the federal government. In early 1940 the Uraniimi Committee recommended that the government fund limited research on isotope separation as well as Fermi s and Stilard s work on chain reactions at Columbia. 

Alexander Sachs discusses Einstein s letter with President Roosevelt. Roosevelt decides to act and appoints Lyman J. Briggs head of the Advisory Committee on Uranium. 

LBS 119 Calculus II Course Goals, Lyman Briggs School of Science. 

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