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Manhattan Project

Name: Manhattan Project – Great Britain factsheet records
Creator: World History Database

Great Britain · Warfare / World War, 2nd. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

2Records

1942–1943Date range

2Named people

1Places

Chronological records

1942

Franz Simon1942

Oxford · Warfare / World War, 2nd

Simon and Kurti develop gaseous-diffusion methods for separating uranium-235.

1943

Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill19 August 1943

Warfare / World War, 2nd

Roosevelt and Winston Churchill sign Quebec Agreement & a team of British scientists join the Manhattan Project as a result, including Klaus Fuchs

Names involved

Franz SimonWinston Leonard Spencer Churchill

Provenance

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