The Anniversary of the First Public Announcement of the Successful Test of Fission Proceedings (50th) Held in Washington, DC on 17 January 1989

Abstract

On January 26, 1939 Niels Bohr of Copenhagen read a fateful telegram he had just received from Otto Hahn in Berlin to the assembled Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics at The George Washington University. The telegram announced the successful disintegration of uranium into barium with the attendant release of approximately two hundred million electron volts of energy per disintegration. To commemorate the 50th anniversary of this event, the original sponsors, The George Washington University and The Carnegie Institution, will hold a one-day conference on January 17th at The George Washington University. The surviving members of the original attendees will be invited as special guests to the conference. In addition, it is planned to host 300-400 members of the scientific, engineering, and political communities.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 17, 1989
Accession Number
ADA249905

Entities

People

  • Sam Rothman

Organizations

  • George Washington University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Chemical Synthesis
  • Chemistry
  • Electric Power
  • Engineering
  • Fission
  • Geography
  • Levitons
  • Materials Science
  • Metallic Nanoparticles
  • Military Research
  • National Politics
  • National Security
  • Nuclear Bombs
  • Nuclear Energy
  • Phase Transformations
  • Transition Temperature
  • Transuranium Elements

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Academic Conference Management
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.

Technology Areas

  • Microelectronics