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🤓 Ah, yes, because the world was just clamoring for yet another rehash of the Manhattan Project. We *totally* needed a reminder that dropping atomic bombs was a big news story—did you know #physicists were involved? 🚀 The real bombshell here is how a few paragraphs can feel longer than the entirety of #WWII. 📚💥
https://www.construction-physics.com/p/an-engineering-history-of-the-manhattan #ManhattanProject #AtomicHistory #Rehashing #History #HackerNews #ngated -
Going to see #Oppenheimer tonight w/ my boys but while reading some atomic history learned of this "hidden figure" in physics, Lise Meitner.
Not only did she suggest the first nuclear fission experiment but when her lab professor had no clue why it worked, she devised a theory ... that would become The Bomb ... and nuclear power.
(Yeah, of course, her professor won the Nobel Prizew/out crediting Meitner but that's just boys being boys, right?)
https://www.atomicarchive.com/resources/biographies/meitner.html