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" it . . . suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an element which is split by neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear chain reaction. "
Physics of Societal Issues: Calculations on National Security, Environment ... - Página 3
por David Hafemeister - 2007 - 487 páginas
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Rise and Fall of Nuclearism: Fear and Faith as Determinants of the Arms Race

Sheldon Ungar - 2010 - 228 páginas
...at a London intersection in 1933, Leo Szilard, a Hungarian-born physicist, had a brilliant insight: It suddenly occurred to me that if we could find an...element if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustarn a nuclear chain reaction. I didn't see at the moment just how one would go about finding such...
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Realism, Utopia, and the Mushroom Cloud: Four Activist Intellectuals and ...

Michael Bess - 1993 - 364 páginas
...London street one autumn day, that he made the most momentous theoretical breakthrough of his career: [It] suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...would emit two neutrons when it absorbed one neutron, . . . [it] might become possible to set up a nuclear chain reaction, liberate energy on an industrial...
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Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford

S. L. Sanger - 1995 - 284 páginas
...reaction. The year before, while walking in London and wait ing for a red light, it occurred to Szilard that "if we could find an element which is split by...assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a chain reaction. " He said the thought "became sort of an obsession with me. " Working with Albert Einstein,...
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb

Richard Rhodes - 2012 - 890 páginas
...67108868, 134217736 . . . "As the light changed to green and I crossed the street," Szilard recalls, "it . . . suddenly occurred to me that if we could...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear...
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Hitler's Gift: The True Story of the Scientists Expelled by the Nazi Regime

J. S. Medawar, David Pyke - 2001 - 322 páginas
...in Holborn, and watched the traffic lights change from red, through amber to green. He later wrote: 'It suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear chain reaction.'...
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A Passion for Learning: The Education of Seven Eminent Americans

Philip A. Cusick - 2005 - 194 páginas
...multiplying chain reaction. Leo Szilard, a Hungarian/German Jewish refugee living in America, figured out that "If we could find an element which is split by...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear...
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Transforming the Twentieth Century: Technical Innovations and Their Consequences

Vaclav Smil - 2006 - 368 páginas
...nuclear physics was wrong. Szilard's eureka came as he stopped for a streetlight on Southampton Row: could find an element which is split by neutrons and...in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear reaction. I didn't see at the moment just how one would go about finding such an element or what experiments...
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Quantum Mechanics Ñ What is wrong with it and how to fix it

Janeen Hunt - 2007 - 196 páginas
...some of its enormous energy 'As the light changed to green and I crossed the street,' Szilard recalls, 'it... suddenly occurred to me that if we could find...neutrons and which would emit two neutrons when it absorbs one neutron, such an element, if assembled in sufficiently large mass, could sustain a nuclear...
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