A Conversation with Roland Timerbaev
1.2 - The 1940s and dawn of the Nuclear age (4:45)
Supplemental Information
Neils Bohr (1885 – 1962) received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1922.
Dean Acheson (1893 – 1971) was U.S. Secretary of State under Harry Truman.
David Lilienthal (1899 - 1981) chaired the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1947 to 1949.
Robert Oppenheimer (1904 – 1967) was director of the Manhattan Project.
Ernest Lawrence (1901 – 1958) invented the cyclotron, technology later used for uranium-isotope separation. He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1939.
Edward Teller (1980 – 2003) was a co-founder of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is known as the father of the hydrogen bomb.
Truman administration (1945 – 1953)
Bernard Baruch (1870 – 1965) was appointed by President Truman in 1946 as the U.S. representative to the United Nations Atomic Energy Commission (UNAEC).
