Current dates

12. Week 2024


Thursday, 03.21.

Special Seminar

Time, Place:

11:15 ,Otto Hahn lecture hall, library building

Speaker:

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

Title:

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.