Forget 'Barbenheimer': For today's other unlikely pairing, we tell you how the speed bump and Oppenheimer’s A-bomb are connected.
"I am become Minor Inconvenience, scraper of splitters" doesn't have quite the same impact as a Vishnu quote from the. Still, as a historical footnote, it's a curious bit of trivia that a man at the very center of the dawn of the nuclear age should also be responsible for something so seemingly low-tech.Born in Ohio in 1892, Arthur Compton was born into a family of academics . He began studying physics, specifically the behavior of X-rays.
In 1942, Compton placed a grave responsibility on Oppenheimer's shoulders by appointing him the top theorist of the Office of Scientific Research and Development. When the army took over that summer, Compton pressed for Oppenheimer to remain in charge of the Manhattan Project. After receiving the Medal for Merit for his work on the Manhattan Project, the highest U.S. civilian decoration at the time, Compton returned to university life. Here, as Chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis, he was annoyed at motorists speeding up and down the main thoroughfare of campus. So he did something about it."Holly humps," as they were first called, were installed on what is now Hoyt Drive in the spring of 1953.
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