The first page of the MAUD Committee report, March 1941
The MAUD Committee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War. It was established to perform the research required to determine if an atomic bomb was feasible. The name MAUD came from a strange line in a telegram from Danish physicist Niels Bohr referring to his housekeeper, Maud Ray.
The MAUD Committee was founded in response to the Frisch–Peierls memorandum, which was written in March 1940 by Rudolf Peierls and Otto Frisch, two physicists who were refugees from Nazi Germany working at the University of Birmingham under the direction of Mark Oliphant. The memorandum argued that a small sphere of pure uranium-235 could have the explosive power of thousands of tons of TNT.
The chairman of the MAUD Committee was George Thomson. Research was split among four different universities: the University of Birmingham, University of Liverpool, University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford, each having a separate programme director. Various means of uranium enrichment were examined, as was nuclear reactor design, the properties of uranium-235, the use of the then-hypothetical element plutonium, and theoretical aspects of nuclear weapon design.
After fifteen months of work, the research culminated in two reports, "Use of Uranium for a Bomb" and "Use of Uranium as a Source of Power", known collectively as the MAUD Report. The report discussed the feasibility and necessity of an atomic bomb for the war effort. In response, the British created a nuclear weapons project, code named Tube Alloys. The MAUD Report was made available to the United States, where it energised the American effort, which eventually became the Manhattan Project. The report was also revealed to the Soviet Union by its atomic spies, and helped start the Soviet atomic bomb project.
The MAUDCommittee was a British scientific working group formed during the Second World War. It was established to perform the research required to determine...
power of thousands of tons of TNT. This led to the formation of the MAUDCommittee, which called for an all-out effort to develop nuclear weapons. Wallace...
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Oliphant took the Frisch–Peierls memorandum to Tizard. As a result, the MAUDCommittee was established to investigate further. It directed an intensive research...
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that made microwave radar possible. Oliphant also formed part of the MAUDCommittee, which reported in July 1941, that an atomic bomb was not only feasible...
and Nicholas Kurti at the Clarendon Laboratory in 1940, tasked by the MAUDCommittee with finding a method for separating uranium-235 from uranium-238 in...
of Staff Committee approve Tube Alloys. October 3: Official copy of MAUD Report (written by Chadwick) reaches Bush. October 9: Bush takes MAUD Report to...
findings made their way to the United States through the report of the MAUDCommittee, an important trigger in the establishment of the Manhattan Project...
was small enough to be carried by a bomber of the day. The British MaudCommittee then unanimously recommended pursuing the development of an atomic bomb...
calculated that an atomic bomb could be technically feasible, and of the MAUDCommittee which succeeded it. In 1940, as part of the Tizard Mission, he shared...
discovery of the neutron in 1932. In 1941, he wrote the final draft of the MAUD Report, which inspired the U.S. government to begin serious atom bomb research...
the University of Cambridge, where they worked on reactor design. The MAUDCommittee was uncertain whether this was relevant to the main task of Tube Alloys...
Tube Alloys project: the world's first nuclear weapons project. The MaudCommittee was set up following the work of Frisch and Rudolf Peierls who calculated...
Americans to task for not following up the recommendations of the British MAUDCommittee, which advocated a program to develop an atomic bomb. Lawrence had already...
Ralph H. Fowler. In March 1941 a British committee of Nobel Prize–winning scientists, called the MAUDCommittee, concluded that an atomic bomb was "not...
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radioactive 'super-bomb.' ". On 10 April 1940, the first meeting of the MAUDCommittee was held.: 321–325, 330–331, 340–341 In December 1940, Franz Simon...
briefed Roosevelt on Tube Alloys, the British atomic bomb project and its MaudCommittee, which had concluded that an atomic bomb was feasible, and on the German...
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fuel-containing objects. In response to an inquiry from the British MAUDCommittee, G. I. Taylor estimated the amount of energy that would be released...
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than had previously been thought. The memorandum was a product of the MAUDCommittee, which was working on the UK atomic bomb project, known as Tube Alloys...
scientific exchange, the MaudCommittee's findings were conveyed to the United States. Oliphant, one of the MaudCommittee's members, flew to the United...
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