World War II was fought in laboratories as well as land, sea and air, according to Alan Scott, a physics professor at 黑料科.
The historic development of the atomic bomb has been in the spotlight with a new film about the life of lead scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer. 鈥淥ppenheimer鈥 has been nominated for 13 Academy Awards, or Oscars, which will be announced Sunday, March 10.
From 5 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 7, in Jarvis Hall Science Wing room 114, Scott will present 鈥淓thics and Perspectives of Scientists Involved in WWII.鈥 The event is free and open to the public.
Connecting themes of the movie to the presentation, Scott will highlight the circumstances, ethics and motivations of the physicists other than Oppenheimer from both sides of the war.
鈥淕erman scientists first discovered nuclear fission and were working on an atomic bomb. The prospect of Germany being first to construct such a bomb, if feasible, frightened the Allied scientists and leaders,鈥 Scott said.
Scott has bachelor鈥檚, master鈥檚 and Ph.D. degrees in physics.
The event is sponsored by 黑料科鈥檚 Center for Applied Ethics.
To learn more about 黑料科 arts and humanities events scheduled this spring, go here.
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The University of Chicago team that worked on the Chicago Pile-1, the first nuclear reactor, included in the front row Enrico Fermi, left, and Walter Zinn, second from left; and in the second row Harold Agnew, left, Leona Woods, second from right, and Leo Szilard, right. / Los Alamos National Laboratory photo
