Karol Jalochowski | Pioneers: Roy Glauber. The Bomb that Shook the World. @jalochowski | Uploaded November 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
The youngest and likely the only surviving scientific participant of the Manhattan project and a Noble prize winner in 2005. As a result of the Manhattan programme, the first nu- clear bomb was created (Glauber witnessed its first test), attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened, the discovery of thermonuclear bomb occurred, and a reconfiguration of the power balance after World War Two took place.
The episode presents Glauber’s personal recollections and thoughts about the project and the profile of the Harvard professor.
Pioneers is one and only project devoted to the most unorthodox contemporary thinkers who have had the courage to challenge current paradigms. The emotions of discovering and stress-testing new theories; the passion which prompts one to go against the expectations of others, against the “publish or die” model; the joys and sorrows of exploring frontiers of the known and the unknown – this is what the series is about.
Other completed episodes of the series:
Daniel C Dennett. Do Lobsters Have Free Will?
Artur Ekert. A Model Kit.
Freeman Dyson. Space Dreamer.
Julian Barbour. Bottom’s Dream.
Roy Glauber. The Bomb that Shook the World.
Gregory Chaitin. Against Method.
Charles H. Bennett. A Drinking Bird Mystery.
Support by Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
The youngest and likely the only surviving scientific participant of the Manhattan project and a Noble prize winner in 2005. As a result of the Manhattan programme, the first nu- clear bomb was created (Glauber witnessed its first test), attack on Hiroshima and Nagasaki happened, the discovery of thermonuclear bomb occurred, and a reconfiguration of the power balance after World War Two took place.
The episode presents Glauber’s personal recollections and thoughts about the project and the profile of the Harvard professor.
Pioneers is one and only project devoted to the most unorthodox contemporary thinkers who have had the courage to challenge current paradigms. The emotions of discovering and stress-testing new theories; the passion which prompts one to go against the expectations of others, against the “publish or die” model; the joys and sorrows of exploring frontiers of the known and the unknown – this is what the series is about.
Other completed episodes of the series:
Daniel C Dennett. Do Lobsters Have Free Will?
Artur Ekert. A Model Kit.
Freeman Dyson. Space Dreamer.
Julian Barbour. Bottom’s Dream.
Roy Glauber. The Bomb that Shook the World.
Gregory Chaitin. Against Method.
Charles H. Bennett. A Drinking Bird Mystery.
Support by Centre for Quantum Technologies, National University of Singapore
