Re: pinhole re: tickling the dragon's tail

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Sun Nov 07 2004 - 20:27:39 PST 

From: "Paul Doherty" <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: Re: pinhole re: tickling the dragon's tail
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 20:27:39 -0800
Message-ID: <web-6477846@exploratorium.edu>

Hi Bryan

Here is a linnk to the story

http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/FH/Section_Directory.htm

and here is a page with a pphoto of the dragon apparatus

http://www.childrenofthemanhattanproject.org/LA/Photo-Pages-2/LAP-217.htm

Paul D

On Sun, 7 Nov 2004 22:47:41 EST
  Btflaig@aol.com wrote:
>I was telling my 8th grade class an anecdote that my high
>school chemistry
>teacher told me about uranium but soon realized that time
>(among other things)
>had erased the details. Does anyone know the story of a
>famous scientist who
>used to thrill peers and students by slowly moving blocks
>of uranium closer and
>closer towards each other until they began to warm and
>approach critical
>mass? It may have been in Chicago. I definitely
>remember that the story had a
>tragic ending when the poor guy brought the blocks too
>close together and
>started some sort of reaction. He jumped up on the lab
>table and threw his body
>across the blocks screaming "Get out!" to everyone
>observing the experiment. His
>death soon followed. That part I remember.
>
>Bryan Flaig

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