British Mission to the Manhattan Project

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World War II military-scientific mission scientific delegation

The British Mission to the Manhattan Project was a team of British and émigré scientists sent to the United States during World War II to collaborate closely on the development of the first atomic bombs.

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Surface form	Occurrences
Anglo-American scientific cooperation in World War II	1
British scientific mission to the Manhattan Project	1
Manhattan Project scientists	1

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	World War II military-scientific mission ⓘ scientific delegation ⓘ
basedOn	Tube Alloys research ⓘ
composedOf	British scientists ⓘ émigré scientists in Britain ⓘ
conflict	World War II ⓘ
contributedTo	critical mass estimates ⓘ design of the plutonium implosion bomb ⓘ development of British postwar atomic weapons program ⓘ implosion lens design ⓘ neutron diffusion calculations ⓘ
cooperatedWith	Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ surface form: Los Alamos Laboratory theoretical division U.S. nuclear physicists ⓘ U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ⓘ surface form: United States Army Corps of Engineers
countryOfOrigin	United Kingdom ⓘ
fieldOfWork	nuclear physics ⓘ theoretical physics ⓘ weapons engineering ⓘ
followedBy	British participation in Operation Crossroads ⓘ
hasEffect	strengthened Allied scientific collaboration ⓘ transferred British nuclear expertise to the United States ⓘ
hasPurpose	accelerating Allied development of nuclear weapons ⓘ collaboration on development of atomic bombs ⓘ sharing British nuclear research with the United States ⓘ
influenced	Anglo–American nuclear cooperation ⓘ British nuclear weapons program ⓘ
language	English ⓘ
legalBasis	Quebec Agreement ⓘ
location	Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory ⓘ Los Alamos Laboratory ⓘ Oak Ridge Reservation ⓘ surface form: Oak Ridge United States of America ⓘ surface form: United States
notableMember	Anthony P. French NERFINISHED ⓘ Ernest Titterton ⓘ George Placzek ⓘ James Chadwick ⓘ Klaus Fuchs ⓘ Mark Oliphant ⓘ Niels Bohr ⓘ Otto Frisch ⓘ Rudolf Peierls ⓘ William Penney ⓘ
partOf	Manhattan Project ⓘ
startTime	1943 ⓘ
timePeriod	1940s ⓘ

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Federation of American Scientists → foundedBy → British Mission to the Manhattan Project ⓘ

this entity surface form: Manhattan Project scientists

Tube Alloys programme → hasPart → British Mission to the Manhattan Project ⓘ

Hyde Park Aide-Mémoire → hasParticipant → British Mission to the Manhattan Project ⓘ

this entity surface form: British scientific mission to the Manhattan Project

Henry Tizard → influenced → British Mission to the Manhattan Project ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anglo-American scientific cooperation in World War II