RE: letter from Albert Einstein [was A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request]

["Franta, Jaroslav" <frantaj@AECL.CA>]

As I recall from reading Richard Rhodes' The Making of the Atomic Bomb, Einstein's letter actually didn't do anything -- there was a long delay between its delivery and the start of the Manhattan Project.

Forget what it was exactly that eventually got it going -- perhaps someone else can recall the details -- wasn't it that famous calculation by physicists in Britain ?

Thanks,

Jaro 

-----Original Message-----
From: Jacobus, John (OD/ORS) [mailto:jacobusj@ors.od.nih.gov]
Sent: Wednesday July 25, 2001 4:57 PM
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Cc: Dukelow, James S Jr; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: RE: A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request

And it took a letter from Albert Einstein to impress President Roosevelt to start the Manhattan Project.

-- John

John Jacobus, MS
Certified Health Physicist
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-----Original Message-----
From: xrftom [mailto:tom@XRFCorp.com]
Sent: Wednesday, July 25, 2001 3:29 PM
To: dkosloff1
Cc: Dukelow, James S Jr; radsafe@list.vanderbilt.edu
Subject: Re: A response to Jerry Cohen's reasonable request

SNIP
> I wasn't the one who raised the issue of 17,000+ scientists subscribing
> to the dissident position on global warming.  I merely pointed out that
> there is no way of telling which or how many of the non-fraudulent
> signatories of the petition are actually scientists.
> SNIP
 

17,000 scientists signing a petition on a planet with approximately 10,000 scientific journals just don't seem all that impressive.

Tom Hazlett