Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/08/24

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Subject: Re: [Leica] kodachrome query: Now OFF TOPIC
From: Marc James Small <msmall@roanoke.infi.net>
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 1999 22:44:01 -0400

At 08:35 PM 8/24/1999 -0400, Dan Cardish wrote:
>I recall that a crucial event in the development of the A-bomb occurred
>when Wheeler met Neils Bohr (travelling under a pseudonym under the
>strictest secrecy; the news that Bohr was in the US would have been
>disasterous for the Manhatten project) in coming of a ship in New York,
>during the war.  So I think that Bohr must have played some role in the
>A-bombs development.

Well, I don't recall this, but it is, in any event, irrelevant:  Don
Rorschach's point was German refugee scientists.  Bohr was a Dane.

Marc

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