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group were tasked to develop a fusing mechanism that would have less than one chance in 10,000 of failing to detonate within 200 feet (61 m) of the required height. The required height was not initially known, as it depended on the yield, which was uncertain. The group investigated both radar
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Normally, bombs are cheap and fuses are relatively expensive, but an atomic bomb is extremely expensive, and any failure of a triggering device is unacceptable. On the other hand, for the same reason, fuses can be employed that would be prohibitively expensive in a conventional bomb. Brode's E-3
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After the war, Brode returned to teaching at Berkeley. Between 1930 and 1957 he supervised 37 graduate students. In addition to his research and teaching, he occupied a number of other positions. He was the academic assistant to two presidents of the University of California, and sat on numerous
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and Malcolm; the fourth child died within weeks of birth. They had an older brother, James Stanley. All four attended Whitman College, and went on to earn doctorates and have distinguished careers as scientists and academics.
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in 1924, the first year in which Caltech awarded this degree, for his thesis on "the absorption coefficient for slow electrons in gases". He showed that molecules with similar arrangements of their external
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at Berkeley in 1967. He died at his home in Berkeley on February 19, 1986. He was survived by his wife Bernice and his son John. His papers are in the University of California's
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In addition to his research and teaching, Brode occupied a number of other positions. He was the academic assistant to two presidents of the University of California,
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in the T (Theoretical) Division. Brode's group consisted of 14 civilians, 12 military officers and 37 enlisted men of the
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After the war, Brode returned to teaching at Berkeley. In 1950 he was one of a dozen prominent scientists who petitioned
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from 1926 to 1927. On returning to the US he married Bernice Hedley Bidwell on September 16, 1926. They had two sons.
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At various times Brode was vice president of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics and the
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Brode graduated from Whitman College with his Bachelor of Science degree in 1921, and then entered the
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Brode, Bernice (1980). Badash, Lawrence; Hirschfelder, Joseph O.; Broida, Herbert P. (eds.).
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for collisions with slow electrons. These results could not be readily explained with
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known as "Archie" was employed, and the fuses performed flawlessly in the
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University of California, Berkeley College of Letters and Science faculty
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to declare that the United States would never be the first to use the
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to declare that the United States would never be the first to use the
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in Germany in 1925 and 1926, and then a research appointment at
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Project Y: The Los Alamos Project Inception through August 1945
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On graduation, Brode became an Associate Physicist at the
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The Absorption Coefficient for Slow Electrons in Gases
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Brode became an assistant professor of physics at the
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The Absorption Coefficient for Slow Electrons in Gases
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Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project
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American Association for the Advancement of Science
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Walla Walla, Washington
Berkeley, California
Whitman College
BS
California Institute of Technology
MS
PhD
Oriel College, Oxford
Physics
Los Alamos Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
Thesis
The Absorption Coefficient for Slow Electrons in Gases

World War II
Manhattan Project
Los Alamos Laboratory
atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
California Institute of Technology
Oxford University
Rhodes Scholarship
University of Göttingen
National Research Council
World War II
Applied Physics Laboratory
Johns Hopkins University
proximity fuse
President
Harry S. Truman

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