Multiple choice general knowledge

The Manhattan Project was the codename for a project conducted during World War II to develop the first atomic bomb.The scientific research was directed by __________________

  1. Otto Han

  2. J. Robert Oppenheimer

  3. Fritz Strassman

  4. Ernest Rutherford
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B Correct answer
Explanation

J. Robert Oppenheimer was the scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, leading the team that developed the atomic bomb. Otto Hahn discovered nuclear fission, Fritz Strassmann worked with Hahn, and Ernest Rutherford was an earlier nuclear physicist who died in 1937.

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