Aktuelle Termine

12. Woche 2024


Donnerstag, 21.03.

Special Seminar

Zeit, Ort:

11:15 Uhr, Otto Hahn lecture hall, library building

Redner:

Prof. Dr. Michael Wiescher, University of Notre Dame, USA

Titel:

The Manhattan Project and ideas in Nuclear Astrophysics

This talk will provide a historical analysis of the impact of academic nuclear physics in the 1930s on the US Manhattan Project from 1942 to 1945 and the subsequent nuclear test program 1945-1970. The talk will also discuss the impact of the Manhattan Project towards the development of the field of Nuclear Astrophysics and the interpretation of nuclear reaction processes in stars and explosive stellar environments.