Episode 2.20: Of Fascism and Fission
A discussion of the developments in nuclear physics that led to the discovery of fission. These include Francis Aston's development of the mass spectrometer, George Gamow, Neils Bohr and Charles Weisacker and the development of the Liquid-Drop Model of the nucleus, the work of Otto Hahn at the Kai…
MAUD Committee
Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Sunday, 30 May 2021 is MAUD Committee.The MAUD Committee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War. It was established to perform the r…
Tube Alloys
Welcome to featured Wiki of the Day where we read the summary of the featured Wikipedia article every day.The featured article for Saturday, 17 October 2020 is Tube Alloys.Tube Alloys was the code name of the research and development programme authorised by the United Kingdom, with participation f…
Lise Meitner
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the decisive role of one of the great 20th Century physicists in solving the question of nuclear fission. It is said that Meitner (1878-1968) made this breakthrough over Christmas 1938 while she was sitting on a log in Sweden during a snowy walk with her nephew Ott…
Lise Meitner
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the decisive role of one of the great 20th Century physicists in solving the question of nuclear fission. It is said that Meitner (1878-1968) made this breakthrough over Christmas 1938 while she was sitting on a log in Sweden during a snowy walk with her nephew Ott…
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street.
Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "moonshine," Szilard envisioned a nuclear chain reaction: if an element could be found that emits t…
How the World’s First Nuclear Bomb Was Made - Part 1
In September 1933, Hungarian physicist and Jewish refugee Leo Szilard was struck by a world-altering idea while crossing a London street.
Irritated by Lord Rutherford’s dismissal of atomic power as "moonshine," Szilard envisioned a nuclear chain reaction: if an element could be found that emits tw…
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