George Washington University. Department of Physics.
A brief history of the George Washington University physics department, 1934-1994.
Includes a brief history of the department of physics at George Washington University and an article entitled "The Nuclear Fission Announcement" by G. David Anderson. The article discusses the appointment of George Gamow and Edward Teller to the department in the 1930s, and Niels Bohr's dramatic reading of the telegram with the news that physicist Otto Hahn in Berlin had successfully split the atom to the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics in 1939.
Bohr, Niels, 1885-1962
Gamow, George, 1904-1968.
Teller, Edward, 1908-2003
George Washington University. Department of Physics
Institutional History
Nuclear physics.
Physics -- Study and teaching.
Physics -- Research.
Anderson, G. David.
Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics Fifth 1939.
AIP-ICOS
American Institute of Physics. Niels Bohr Library & Archives. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740, USA