In which year did the Frisch–Peierls memorandum get co-authored?
1940
1944
1936
1930
Answer
In 1940, Otto Frisch and Rudolf Peierls wrote a memorandum to British physicists on the feasibility of an atomic bomb. They concluded that it was possible to build a bomb that would release the energy of the atomic nucleus, but that it would require a large amount of uranium-235. The Frisch–Peierls memorandum was a key factor in the British decision to begin the Manhattan Project to develop an atomic bomb.
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