The Nobel Laureates

 The "War of the Currents" was a time in history in the late nineteenth century when there was fierce competition between two competing electrical power systems: Thomas Edison's direct current (DC) system and Nikola Tesla and George Westinghouse's alternating current (AC) system. Thomas Edison pioneered the use of direct current (DC) electricity for electrical distribution through his firm Edison Electric Light firm (later known as General Electric or GE). Due to its restricted transmission capabilities, DC electricity travels in just one way and necessitates power plants being situated near customers. On the other side, Nikola Tesla, with the financial backing of George Westinghouse, lobbied for alternating current power. AC electricity allows for more efficient long-distance transmission and the use of transformers to step up or step down voltage levels as needed. As each side sought to control the burgeoning electric power business, tensions between these two syste

 The Manhattan Project was a top-secret research and development program run by the United States during WWII with the purpose of producing atomic weapons, namely the atomic bomb. It was named after the Manhattan Engineer District, the organization of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in charge of its administration. The project was launched in 1939 in response to fears that Nazi Germany was working on producing nuclear weapons. Recognizing the potential strategic and military significance of such weapons, the US government committed significant money and technical skill to the research. The Manhattan Project brought together a varied mix of scientists, engineers, and military people, including J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Edward Teller, among others. Several major research and production sites were created, including Los Alamos, New Mexico (for bomb design), Oak Ridge, Tennessee (for uranium enrichment), and Hanford, Washington (for plutonium manufacture). Various