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MANHATTAN PROJECT (G531)

G – History

Explore the Manhattan Project, one of history’s most ambitious undertakings. Follow the path from discovery of nuclear fission and the explosion of scientific work to the vast engineering efforts at Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alamos that culminated in the atomic bomb. Examine the science, management and the men and women behind the project, using photographs, diagrams and interviews to reveal both the technological achievement and the human story.

This offering meets for a total of 5 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Robert Ehrlich

EHRLICH, ROBERT — M.S., environmental engineering, University of Delaware; Ph.D., physics, Rutgers University. Research in biochemistry and environmental chemistry at University of Delaware. Editor of OLLI Wilmington Newsletter. (G531, G535))

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