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    The Montreal Laboratory was a program established by the National Research Council of Canada during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration...
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    became the director of the Montreal Laboratory. The Chalk River Laboratories opened in 1944, and in 1946 the Montreal Laboratory was closed. The project...
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    researchers which saw the Montreal Laboratory established under the National Research Council (NRC). By 1944, the Chalk River Laboratories (known as “Petawawa...
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    at the Montreal Laboratory in Canada. This became part of the Manhattan Project to develop the first atomic bombs. At Chalk River Laboratories, he worked...
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    director of the Montreal Laboratory, and oversaw the development of the ZEEP and NRX reactors, and the creation of the Chalk River Laboratories. After the...
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    co-operation between the Manhattan Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and the Montreal Laboratory. At the Combined Policy Committee meeting on 17 February...
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    Several transferred to Canada in 1943; the Montreal Laboratory and some later to the Chalk River Laboratories. The production of plutonium and neptunium...
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    went critical at Harwell on 15 August 1947. British staff at the Montreal Laboratory designed a larger reactor, known as BEPO, which went critical on...
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  • Part of the deficit of technical knowledge was addressed by the Montreal Laboratory in Canada, where the ZEEP reactor went critical on 5 September 1945...
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    reactor built at the Chalk River Laboratories near Chalk River, Ontario, Canada (which superseded the Montreal Laboratory for nuclear research in Canada)...
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  • nuclear research team at the Montreal Laboratory, where he was responsible for recruiting Canadian scientists. The laboratory later transferred to the Chalk...
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  • professor. During World War II he worked on the Manhattan Project at the Montreal Laboratory. From 1961 to 1970, he was the head of the department. From 1970...
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    Montreal was established in 1642 in what is now the province of Quebec, Canada. At the time of European contact the area was inhabited by the St. Lawrence...
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    protection, aerospace, electronics, agriculture, and laboratory measurements. Under the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer,...
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  • In 1943 he moved to Canada to work under George Placzek at the Montreal Laboratory of the joint British-Canadian atomic energy project. In October 1945...
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  • University is an English-language public research university located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Founded in 1821 by royal charter, the university bears...
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    became the director of the Anglo-Canadian Montreal Laboratory. The British mission to the Los Alamos Laboratory was headed by Chadwick, and later Peierls...
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  • particles" Montreal Laboratory 1951 Edwin M. McMillan Chemistry "for their discoveries in the chemistry of the transuranium elements" Los Alamos Laboratory 1951...
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    cooperation between the Manhattan's Project's Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and the Montreal Laboratory. At the Combined Policy Committee meeting on 17 February...
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  • dates back to 1942 when a joint British-Canadian laboratory, the Montreal Laboratory, was set up in Montreal, Quebec, under the administration of the National...
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    the director of the joint British-Canadian Montreal Laboratory. A British mission to the Los Alamos Laboratory led by James Chadwick, and later Peierls...
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    and Joliot) reasons. Isolated at the Cavendish laboratory in Cambridge, then at the Montreal laboratory from the end of 1942, they contributed to the work...
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    also engaged in atomic fission research at the Montreal Laboratory, and later the Chalk River Laboratories in Ontario. Post-WWII, the NRC reverted to its...
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  • Most notably, the NRC was engaged in atomic fission research at its Montreal Laboratory. Canada also lacked effective security measures and, unlike the United...
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    Ishfaq Ahmad Khan (category Université de Montréal alumni)
    his long doctoral studies, Ahmad studied nuclear reaction at the Montreal Laboratory with supervisors and scientists role in the Manhattan Project. Upon...
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    the director of the joint British-Canadian Montreal Laboratory. A British mission to the Los Alamos Laboratory was led by Chadwick, and later Peierls, which...
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    The University of Montreal (UdeM; French pronunciation: [ynivɛʁsite də mɔ̃ʁeal]; translates to Université de Montréal) is a French-language public research...
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    scientist working at Los Alamos (Louis Slotin), and hosting the Montreal Laboratory which took over from Tube Alloys. Canada would continue to supply...
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  • a joint Canadian-British nuclear research laboratory, the Montreal Laboratory, was established in Montreal in 1942, under the National Research Council...
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    safer location with an abundance of resources; resulting in the Montreal Laboratory. In the same year, the Canadian government purchased the Eldorado...
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