Frankel: The Accidental Atomicist
Shortly before his death, Hyman Frankel, the last surviving member of the team whose work led to the development of the atom bomb, talked to Maureen Paton about why he decided not to join the Manhattan Project.
In early 1941 Hyman Frankel’s life changed overnight when the physics student and member of the Young Communists was hand-picked to join a team of scientists working on a secret British nuclear project, codenamed Tube Alloys, at Cambridge University’s Cavendish Laboratory. The secret project to produce a British atom bomb was later immortalised in C.P. Snow’s 1954 novel The New Men.
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