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"Unlike his other project leaders—Lawrence at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Compton at the Metallurgical Project in Chicago, and Urey at the SAM Laboratories in New York, Oppenheimer..." I think there should be an emdash before Oppenheimer here
"Groves personally issued instruction to clear Oppenheimer..." --> "Groves personally issued instructions to clear Oppenheimer" or "Groves personally issued an instruction to clear Oppenheimer"?
Comments. This is a great article ... I particularly like the images ... but it's also a very long one, and generally, your Manhattan Project articles don't have any trouble attracting reviewers. My current plan is to bail on this one, but if it gets stuck at FAC, I'll be back. - Dank (
push to talk)
15:59, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
I have a lot more images, including ones of most of the buildings in the Tech Area, and examples of the various types of buildings, but this would require galleries to display.
Hawkeye7 (
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04:53, 24 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Support I just spent the last hour reading this article and, after that, I wish I could give some constructive feedback or note areas of concern but this is a very well-written (and extremely interesting) contribution and I can't find any issues.
DarjeelingTea (
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02:22, 24 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Support. I don't pretend to understand the physics, but this is very well written and appears comprehensive. A few queries, but I'm scraping the barrel for things to criticise!:
Did I scare everybody off with the diffusion formula? I wanted to emphasise that they were doing some science. The math isn't beyond high level - we could go through it step by step in a single lecture. Stan Ulam recounted the story of a mathematician at Los Alamos who had sunk as low as a mathematician can go - he had written a paper with a decimal in it. (Poor bastard.)
Hawkeye7 (
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05:59, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
I think if anything scares people off it's the sheer size of the article. It's so big that the page size script doesn't work; a very rough copy and paste into a word processor came up north of 12,000 words. If there's any trimming or splitting into daughter articles you can do, I'd recommend it.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts? 10:52, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
I had noticed that and it's weird - something technical is going on. The main article is much larger and doesn't have this problem.
Hawkeye7 (
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20:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Are Oppenheimer's reasons for resigning significant?
Not enough for me to put them in his article, or for any of his biographers to put it in their books. He intended to return to teaching physics at Berkeley and Caltech; but this proved to impossible, as he kept having to go to Washington. Eventually he decoded to move back east.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
05:59, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
The following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
"Unlike his other project leaders—Lawrence at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory, Compton at the Metallurgical Project in Chicago, and Urey at the SAM Laboratories in New York, Oppenheimer..." I think there should be an emdash before Oppenheimer here
"Groves personally issued instruction to clear Oppenheimer..." --> "Groves personally issued instructions to clear Oppenheimer" or "Groves personally issued an instruction to clear Oppenheimer"?
Comments. This is a great article ... I particularly like the images ... but it's also a very long one, and generally, your Manhattan Project articles don't have any trouble attracting reviewers. My current plan is to bail on this one, but if it gets stuck at FAC, I'll be back. - Dank (
push to talk)
15:59, 24 November 2016 (UTC)reply
I have a lot more images, including ones of most of the buildings in the Tech Area, and examples of the various types of buildings, but this would require galleries to display.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
04:53, 24 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Support I just spent the last hour reading this article and, after that, I wish I could give some constructive feedback or note areas of concern but this is a very well-written (and extremely interesting) contribution and I can't find any issues.
DarjeelingTea (
talk)
02:22, 24 December 2016 (UTC)reply
Support. I don't pretend to understand the physics, but this is very well written and appears comprehensive. A few queries, but I'm scraping the barrel for things to criticise!:
Did I scare everybody off with the diffusion formula? I wanted to emphasise that they were doing some science. The math isn't beyond high level - we could go through it step by step in a single lecture. Stan Ulam recounted the story of a mathematician at Los Alamos who had sunk as low as a mathematician can go - he had written a paper with a decimal in it. (Poor bastard.)
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
05:59, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
I think if anything scares people off it's the sheer size of the article. It's so big that the page size script doesn't work; a very rough copy and paste into a word processor came up north of 12,000 words. If there's any trimming or splitting into daughter articles you can do, I'd recommend it.
HJ Mitchell |
Penny for your thoughts? 10:52, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
I had noticed that and it's weird - something technical is going on. The main article is much larger and doesn't have this problem.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
20:46, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
Are Oppenheimer's reasons for resigning significant?
Not enough for me to put them in his article, or for any of his biographers to put it in their books. He intended to return to teaching physics at Berkeley and Caltech; but this proved to impossible, as he kept having to go to Washington. Eventually he decoded to move back east.
Hawkeye7 (
talk)
05:59, 10 January 2017 (UTC)reply
The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.