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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

nuclear research

A still from 'Adventures of a Mathematician' by filmmaker Thor Klein. (Courtesy Dragonfly Films)
December 24, 2021, 5:51 am
Helping the US get the bomb, this Jewish mathematician faced an ethical problem
New film ‘Adventures of a Mathematician’ follows Stan Ulam, who lost nearly his entire family in the Holocaust, as he helps his new homeland’s nuclear efforts during and after WWII
By Rich Tenorio
Professor Eliezer Rabinovici, 24th President of the CERN Council (CERN)
September 25, 2021, 6:55 am
Israeli prof. elected president of Europe’s nuclear research organization CERN
Physicist Eliezer Rabinovici will head the CERN Council, which governs the organization and oversees major decisions including programs and budgets
By ToI Staff
Researcher Brittany Robertson with a so-called 'Heisenberg cube' that she is analyzing to determine its origins. (Courtesy/Andrea Starr/PNNL)
August 27, 2021, 3:36 am
US researchers work to trace mystery uranium cubes back to Nazi nuclear program
Hundreds of radioactive ‘Heisenberg cubes’ were lost to history after war, but new forensic analysis on the material could fill historical gaps, boost nuclear safeguards
By Luke Tress
Otto Hahn and Lise Meitner, 1912 (Public Domain via WikimediaCommons)
December 21, 2020, 4:30 am
75 years post-Hiroshima, Jewish ‘mother of the bomb’ inspires spy thriller novel
Physicist Lise Meitner discovered nuclear fission soon after fleeing Nazi Germany in 1938, but Nobel Prize was given to a man as she saw her breakthrough used in ways she opposed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Jack Steinberger, left, in 1956 (Sovfoto/Universal Images Group via Getty Images, JTA)
December 18, 2020, 1:09 pm
Jack Steinberger, pioneering Jewish physicist and Nobel Prize winner, dies at 99
Steinberger and two other Jewish colleagues were honored in 1988 for their discoveries about the neutrino; he refused to do research for weapon building
By JTA
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani speaks at a session of parliament to debate his proposed tourism and education ministers, in Tehran, Iran, September 3, 2019. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
September 5, 2019, 4:53 pm
EU urges Iran to ‘reverse’ its violation of limits on nuclear activity
European Commission spokesman says Tehran’s steps ‘undermine’ 2015 nuclear deal as European powers seek ways to keep it alive
By AFP
A woman holds roses as she and others gather for the funerals of five Russian nuclear engineers killed by a rocket explosion in Sarov, the closed city located 370 kilometers (230 miles) east of Moscow, which has served as a base for Russia's nuclear weapons program since the late 1940s, on August 12, 2019. (Screenshot taken from footage provided by the Russian State Atomic Energy Corporation ROSATOM press service via AP)
August 12, 2019, 8:16 pm
Russians killed in missile test blast were working on ‘new weapons’
Scientists killed at secretive nuclear research facility were believed to be developing Burevestnik nuclear-powered cruise missile
By Maxime Popov
Jackson Oswalt shows his homemade fusion reactor to Fox News. (Fox News screenshot)
February 23, 2019, 9:49 am
12-year-old American boy achieves nuclear fusion at home
Jackson Oswalt, who is believed to be youngest ever to reach the feat, built a small amateur nuclear reactor with parents’ financial assistance
By ToI Staff
Portrait of Prof. Dr. Lise Meitner, the Swedish noted woman scientist, who assisted in the development of the atomic bomb, pictured in West Berlin, West Germany, May 11, 1957. (AP Photo/Werner Kreusch)
February 9, 2019, 4:35 am
The forgotten Jewish woman of nuclear physics who was denied a Nobel Prize
After fleeing Nazi Germany, Lise Meitner used letters to guide her colleagues in Berlin to discover nuclear fission, but she was not credited when the findings were published
By Timothy J. Jorgensen
Salah Abdeslam, the leading suspect in the 2015 jihadist attacks on Paris. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 14, 2016, 2:08 pm
Nuke research center papers found in Paris attacker’s home
Salah Abdeslam had internet printouts about institute on German-Belgian border, including photos of center’s chairman
By Sue Surkes
Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government at the Kremlin in Moscow on December 9, 2015. (AFP Photo/Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin)
December 21, 2015, 2:19 am
Putin: Russia will develop, not use, nuclear weapons
Nuke-armed bombers, ballistic missiles remain ‘a containment factor,’ Russian leader says on state TV
By AP
The Nuclear Research Center NEGEV, located in Dimona. (screen capture: YouTube, via Channel 10)
September 8, 2015, 8:15 am
Israel develops palm-sized flying nuclear detectors
US-funded micro-copters, invented in classified Dimona site, can distinguish natural and artificial radiation
By ToI Staff
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