Nuclear Engineering  

 
Date: 9/25/2025
Time: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM EST
Credit:1 hour

This Webinar will pay tribute to the Nuclear Engineering and the “Nuclear Age” began in 1939, when two German physicists, Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassman, split a uranium atom. Continuing their research, Lise Meitner, an Austrian-born physicist who had fled to Sweden after Hitler's invasion of her country, realized that the split had also released energy, in a process known as fission. Warned in a letter signed by several scientists, including Albert Einstein, that Germany could develop a powerful weapon, the United States launched the Manhattan Project, a top-secret endeavor to create an atomic bomb. After this successful effort, the country dropped two atomic bombs on Japan in 1945, ending World War I. 
 
Many physicists during the and after the war, made great contributions to the advancement of atomic theory, while a few others put those theories into practice. These physicists may not have called themselves engineers, but they were the first practitioners of nuclear engineers.
 

Course Number:  LWP102422
Field of Study: Industrial Engineering
Level: Basic
Presenter:
Ronald Finger
Prerequisites: 
None