Tube Alloys
... Frisch and Peierls reported to their professor Mark Oliphant who informed Henry Tizard who formed ... by Norman Feather (1904-1978) and Egon Bretscher (1901-1973). When U-238 absorbs slow ... 94 and a much greater half-life. Bretscher and Feather showed theoretically feasible grounds that ... reactor. It was apparent to Feather and Bretscher that a slow neutron reactor fuelled with ... to the reports of the Maud Committee, Mark Oliphant crossed the Atlantic in an ...
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