Gottow Kummersdorf

'Building at Gottow (Kummersdorf, near Berlin) where Dr. Kurt Diebner's [nuclear fission] research team built G-I pile, using cubes of uranium oxide and paraffin wax; and G-III, using cubes of uranium suspended in heavy water.', Credit Line: Photograph by Samuel Goudsmit, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection
Abstract/Description: 'Building at Gottow (Kummersdorf, near Berlin) where Dr. Kurt Diebner's [nuclear fission] research team built G-I pile, using cubes of uranium oxide and paraffin wax; and G-III, using cubes of uranium suspended in heavy water.'
Subject(s): Outdoors
Institution building
Nuclear energy
World War II
Uranium oxides
Nuclear physics--Research
Goudsmit, Samuel A. (Samuel Abraham), 1902-1978
Credit Line: Photograph by Samuel Goudsmit, courtesy AIP Emilio Segrè Visual Archives, Goudsmit Collection
Catalog ID: Goudsmit Samuel H21