Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Heinz Barwich (22 July 1911 – 10 April 1966) was a German nuclear physicist who later defected to the United States-led Western Bloc in 1964.. At the close of World War II in 1945, Barwick volunteered to go to Soviet Union together with his mentor, Gustav Hertz, where he was one of many German nuclear physicists in the Soviet program of nuclear weapons and was honored with the Stalin Prize ...
The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State begins with an extensive discussion of Morgan's Ancient Society, which aims to describe the major stages of human development, and agrees with the work that the first domestic institution in human history was the matrilineal clan. Morgan was a pioneering American anthropologist and ...
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.
A North American nuclear family. For social conservatism in the United States and Canada, the idea that the nuclear family is traditional is a very important aspect, where family is seen as the primary unit of society. These movements oppose alternative family forms and social institutions that are seen by them to undermine parental authority.
Klaus Emil Julius Fuchs (29 December 1911 – 28 January 1988) was a German theoretical physicist and atomic spy who supplied information from the American, British, and Canadian Manhattan Project to the Soviet Union during and shortly after World War II.
Karl-Heinrich Riewe was born in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany, on June 26, 1907, into a German Jewish family.: 103–104 [1] In spite of being born into a Jewish faith, he was a devoted Protestant Christian, as stated in his university job application submitted for the teaching position at the Wesleyan University in Connecticut, United States in 1937.: 104 [1] In 1928, he entered in the Technische ...
Otto Hahn was one of only four nuclear-powered cargo vessels built to date. Planning of a German-built trade and research vessel to test the feasibility of nuclear power in civil service began in 1960 under the supervision of German physicist Erich Bagge. Launched in 1964, her nuclear reactor was deactivated 15 years later in 1979 and replaced ...
Carl Friedrich Freiherr von Weizsäcker [a] (German: [kaʁl ˈfʁiːdʁɪç fɔn ˈvaɪtsɛkɐ] ⓘ; 28 June 1912 – 28 April 2007) was a German physicist and philosopher. He was the longest-living member of the team which performed nuclear research in Nazi Germany during the Second World War, under Werner Heisenberg's leadership. There is ...