What did Heisenberg tell Bohr about the bomb?
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German physicist Werner Heisenberg met with fellow physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Denmark, in Sep. 1941 and allegedly described details of German plans to develop nuclear weapons. Over 50 years after that fateful day, questions still abound concerning the real purpose of this encounter.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
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Did Bohr share nuclear secrets?
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Niels Bohr has long been accused of sharing top-secret details of US plans to develop an atomic bomb to Soviet spies. However, an analysis of a verbatim transcript of Bohr's alleged meeting with Joseph Stalin provides evidence that these charges have no basis.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1995
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The reluctant father of black holes
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Ironically, Einstein first argued against the existence of black holes using his general theory of relativity, the theory J. Robert Oppenheimer and his student Hartland S. Snyder used to argue that black hole could indeed form.
Publication Name: Scientific American
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0036-8733
Year: 1996
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