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Germany portal; Nuclear technology portal; Trent Park, a similarly bugged house where captured German generals were luxuriously housed during the war and their unguarded conversations monitored; Latimer House and Wilton Park Estate, similar facilities used to monitor other captured German officers during the war before transferring them to POW ...
Photograph of a nuclear family in Maryland, Sgt. Samuel Smith, Mollie Smith, and their daughters Mary and Maggie, c. 1863–1865 A nuclear family (also known as an elementary family, atomic family, or conjugal family) is a term for a family group consisting of parents and their children (one or more), typically living in one home residence.
Otto Hahn (German: [ˈɔtoː ˈhaːn] ⓘ; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry.He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.
On 22 April 1939, after hearing a colloquium paper by his colleague Wilhelm Hanle at the University of Göttingen proposing the use of uranium fission in an Uranmaschine (uranium machine, i.e., nuclear reactor), Georg Joos, along with Hanle, notified Wilhelm Dames, at the Reichserziehungsministerium (REM, Reich Ministry of Education), of potential military and economic applications of nuclear ...
The Leipzig L-IV experiment accident was the first nuclear accident in history. It occurred on 23 June 1942 in a laboratory at the Physical Institute of the Leipzig University in Leipzig, Germany. There was a steam explosion and a reactor fire in the "uranium machine", a primitive form of research reactor. [1]
Operation Osoaviakhim was a secret Soviet operation in which more than 2,500 German specialists (scientists, engineers and technicians who worked in several areas) from companies and institutions relevant to military and economic policy in the Soviet occupation zone of Germany (SBZ) and Berlin, as well as around 4,000 more family members, totalling more than 6,000 people, were taken from ...
Exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the Democratic Women's League of Germany. Youth hour at the Museum of German History during the exhibition “Germany from 1933–1945” in 1964. It interpreted German history as a class struggle consistent with Marx's historical materialism. It displayed texts and 100,000 objects, divided into seven ...
Döpel was born in Neustadt, which is a small town in Saale-Orla-Kreis, Thuringia, Germany on 3 December 1895. [2] From 1919—1925, he studied and attained degrees in physics from the University of Leipzig, University of Jena, and the University of Munich where he attended the doctoral program and did his fundamental research on the Anode ray under Physics Nobel Laureate Wilhelm Wien, prior ...