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Implosion Research Begins

United States of America · Science / Physics. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1943

Seth Henry NeddermeyerApril 1943

Los Alamos · Science / Physics

Neddermeyer begins experimental work on implosion as a method of rapidly compressing a hollow fissile assembly.

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Seth Henry Neddermeyer

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