Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

atomic energy

(Encyclopedia)atomic energy: see nuclear energy. ...

breeder reactor

(Encyclopedia)breeder reactor: see nuclear reactor. ...

thermonuclear energy

(Encyclopedia)thermonuclear energy: see nuclear energy. ...

mutual assured destruction

(Encyclopedia)mutual assured destruction: see nuclear strategy. ...

Florida State University

(Encyclopedia)Florida State University, at Tallahassee; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1857. Present name was adopted in 1947. Special research facilities include those in nuclear science and oceanography. ...

Monroeville

(Encyclopedia)Monroeville, borough (1990 pop. 29,169), Allegheny co., SW Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh; settled 1810, inc. 1952. It is primarily residential, with a major shopping mall. Monroeville has chemical and n...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

(Encyclopedia)Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Slo...

Brown, Harold

(Encyclopedia)Brown, Harold, 1927–2019, American nuclear physicist and government official, b. New York City, Ph.D. Columbia, 1949. He joined (1952) the staff of the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Li...

Semipalatinsk Test Site

(Encyclopedia)Semipalatinsk Test Site, Soviet nuclear testing site, c.6,950 sq mi (18,000 sq km), NE Kazakhstan, near the city of Kurchatov and some 90 mi (150 km) W of Semey (formerly Semipalatinsk). Between 1949 ...

Wilson, Harold

(Encyclopedia)Wilson, Harold (James Harold Wilson, Baron Wilson of Rievaulx), 1916–95, British statesman. A graduate of Oxford, he became an economics lecturer there (1937) and a fellow of University College (193...