• chemist and science policy-maker Rudolf Mentzel, head of the German Research Foundation in the 1930s and later VP of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, was also an SS Brigadier?

Facts on topics related to Science policy

Manhattan Project

• uranium hydride was investigated as a promising bomb material in 1943 during the early phases of the Manhattan Project?
• during World War II Robert Furman served as director of intelligence and espionage for the American atomic bomb project?
• forensic scientist Paul Kirk, who is known for his work on the Sam Sheppard case, worked to isolate fissionable plutonium on the Manhattan Project?
• many cases of nuclear espionage are thought to have occurred since the Manhattan Project?
• the element promethium was discovered in 1945 by Manhattan Project chemists Jacob A. Marinsky, Lawrence E. Glendenin and Charles D. Coryell?

Chernobyl accident

• the Red Forest, near Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant, gets its name from the ginger brown colour of its dead pine trees after the Chernobyl accident?
• the large positive void coefficient of the nuclear reactor at Chernobyl was a major factor in causing the Chernobyl accident?