Project & Pile
This is the city that the first nuclear chain reaction experiments were performed by Fermi.
What is Chicago
(Dr. Anderoglu)
In 1919, this physicist achieved the first artificial transmutation of an element.
Who is Ernest Rutherford
(Dr. Anderoglu)
In 1922 Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize for explaining this.
What the heck is the Photoelectric effect
(Dr. Hecht)
The collective name for electrons, muons, and tauons and their neutrinos.
What are leptons
(Dr. Hecht)
The “Land of Lincoln,”, or the state where the first nuclear chain reaction was observed
What is Illinois
(Dr. Lang)On December 2, 1942, this man led the team that achieved the first controlled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
Who is Enrico Fermi
(Dr. Anderoglu)
Rutherford bombarded this element with alpha particles to produce the first artificial nuclear reaction.
What is Nitrogen
(Dr. Anderoglu)
Rosalind Franklin did research in this, and Watson and Crick looked at her results without her knowledge which helped them understand the double helix structure of DNA.
What the heck are x ray diffraction measurements
(Dr. Hecht)
The collective name for things composed of quarks.
What are hadrons
(Dr. Hecht)
According to its Technical Specifications, this is the Safety Limit for the AGN-201M nuclear reactor.
What is 200 degrees C
(Carl)
Chicago Pile-1 used this material as a moderator to slow down neutrons.
What is graphite
(Dr. Anderoglu)
This is the nuclear reaction equation for Rutherford’s first artificial transmutation.
What is N + α → O + p
(Dr. Anderoglu)
Guiseppe Volta was shocking these when he discovered that electric fields can fly through the air. This was long before HAM radio.
What are frog legs
(Dr. Hecht)
The range of this type of interaction is 10^-18 m.
What is the range of the weak force interaction
(Dr. Hecht)
A large piece of wool, or a component of a fusion reactor used to breed tritium.
What is the blanket
(Dr. Lang)
Control rods of Chicago Pile-1 were primarily made of this neutron-absorbing element.
What is Cadmium
(Dr. Anderoglu)
What is the name of the 20th-century nuclear physicist responsible for the first theory of nuclear fission?
Who is Lise Meitner?
(Carl)
This is Abbot and Costello’s famous question.
Who’s on first
(Dr. Hecht)
The range of this type of interaction is 10^-15 m.
What is the range of the strong force interaction
(Dr. Hecht)
The element first named “Wolfram,”, or the material proposed as a first wall material in fusion reactors.
What is tungsten
(Dr. Lang)
Fermi, Bethe, Oppenheimer, Feynman were among the famous physicists of Manhattan project. Which one didn’t get Nobel prize?
Who is Oppenheimer
(Dr. Anderoglu)
Before being killed in a criticality accident involving the “demon core,” physicist Louis Slotin invented this unit of reactivity, which reaches unity when a reactor becomes prompt critical.
What is the dollar?
(Carl)
A current 6’10” photographer, or a subject of an NE231/2230 homework problem, or a former baseball player.
Who is Randy Johnson?
(Dr. Lang)
The plausible products of a thermonuclear deuterium-deuterium (“DD”) fusion reaction include protons, neutrons, helium-3 nuclei, and this other nucleus.
What is tritium
(Carl)
A scrumptious dessert masquerading as a breakfast food, or the general shape of a tokamak fusion reactor.
What is a donut
(Dr. Lang)