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Scientists and Social Responsibility
Alan Beyerchen addresses the ways that scientists consider the ethical, social, and cultural implications of their research and experiments. With the successful detonation of a nuclear device in New Mexico in July 1945, the Atomic Age was born. The Manhattan Project, … Continue reading
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Tagged Atomic bomb development, James Franck (1882-1964), Manhattan Project, Nobel Prize, Science -- ethics
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