Article ID: CBB000050341

Roots of dissent: The Chicago Met Lab and the origins of the Franck Report (1995)

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Description On the efforts of a small group of scientists at the University of Chicago's Metallurgical Laboratory to prevent the use of nuclear weapons on Japan.


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Authors & Contributors
Kingsland, Sharon E.
James Evans
Snell, Arthur H.
Smith, Dennis
Platt, Jennifer
Park, Robert E.
Journals
Perspectives on Science
Historical Studies in the Physical and Biological Sciences
Sociological Review
Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
Minerva: A Review of Science, Learning and Policy
Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Verlag für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik
St. Martin's Press
Avebury
Concepts
Animal ecology
Nuclear power; atomic energy
Obituaries
Research institutes; research stations
Emigration; immigration
Physics
People
Franck, James
Herrick, Charles Judson
Park, Robert Ezra
Hertz, Heinrich Rudolph
Emerson, Alfred Edwards
Trendelenburg, Friedrich Adolf
Time Periods
20th century
21st century
Places
United States
Institutions
University of Chicago
Society for Social Research
California Institute of Technology
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