Historical Scientific Instruments

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Joshua Gorman, Executive Director of the Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments at the Harvard University Science Center, I was able to pay a visit during a brief break from my book tour. However, in this case there was an additional incentive—and a direct connection to my novel D: Heavy Water. As recently reported in Science, the Germans during the Second World War attempted to build a working nuclear reactor by constructing a chandelier of uranium cubes and lowering it into a tank of heavy water.

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