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REAL Story Behind J. Robert Oppenheimer – Abhijit Chavda Explains | The Ranveer Show 328

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The Importance of Learning and Correcting the Past

A German scientist came up with the idea of releasing a neutron to give rise to a chain reaction. He patented that and then sold the patent if I'm not mistaken to the British government. Eventually, there's this guy called J. Robot Oppenheimer, who was a theoretical physicist in the U.S. And he initially rejected it but one of his students announced that German scientists had actually made this happen with uranium. They used neutrons to break apart a uranium atom and that released more neutrons. So, that is something that will definitely give you a chain reaction - if you know how to make it happen.

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