This scientist wrote a letter to Oppenheimer supporting the H-bomb, and was the only member of the GAC not to testify in Oppenheimer's favor during his security hearing. This scientist worked with John Livingood to discover iodine-131. This longest-serving chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission made one discovery by using (*) deuterium to bombard uranium nuclei. At Berkeley, with Kennedy and Segrè, he discovered that the resulting isotope, plutonium-239, was fissile. For 10 points, name this chemist who won a 1951 Nobel Prize for discoverin
This scientist wrote a letter to Oppenheimer supporting the H-bomb, and was the only member of the GAC not to testify in Oppenheimer's favor during his security hearing. This scientist worked with John Livingood to discover iodine-131. This longest-serving chair of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission made one discovery by using (*) deuterium to bombard uranium nuclei. At Berkeley, with Kennedy and Segrè, he discovered that the resulting isotope, plutonium-239, was fissile. For 10 points, name this chemist who won a 1951 Nobel Prize for discovering ten transuranium elements.
This scientist wrote a letter to Oppenheimer supporting the H-bomb, and was the only member of the GAC not to testify in Oppenheimer's favor during his security hearing.