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Until the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, University of California president Robert Sproul did not know what the purpose of the laboratory was and thought it might be producing a " death ray ".
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Until these experiments, atomic number was not known to be a physical and experimental quantity.
Until the Trinity test explosions of atomic bombs, it was the largest man-made explosion in recorded history.
Until then the official line had been that the growth in the strength of atomic bombs was not accompanied by an equivalent growth in radiation released.
Until Moseley's work, " atomic number " was merely an element's place in the periodic table, and was not known to be associated with any measureable physical quantity.
Until experimental proof of atoms was later provided in the 20th century, the atomic theory was driven largely by philosophical considerations and scientific intuition.
Until and Hiroshima
Until news arrived of the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, fewer than one percent of Hanford's workers knew they were working on a nuclear weapons project.
Until and Japan
Until then Japan had strictly guarded the trade in tea plants.
Until 2003, primarily black-tailed prairie dogs were collected from the wild for the exotic pet trade in Canada, the United States, Japan, and Europe.
Until the mid-1930s, the Prime Minister of Japan was normally granted a title in the peerage ( kazoku ) usually just prior to entering office if he had not already been ennobled.
In addition, a 179-minute " European cut " was released on laserdisc ( letterboxed ) in Japan, accompanied by a 58-minute featurette shot in Tokyo entitled Dream Island by Sean Naughton, who had worked with Wenders on the HD sequences in Until the End of the World.
Until relatively recently, the Japan Sumo Association had no restrictions at all on the number of foreigners allowed in professional sumo.
Until completion of the bridges, the region was isolated from the rest of Japan.
* A History of Law in Japan Until 1868 by Carl Steenstrup ; Brill Academic Publishers ; second edition ( 1996 ) ISBN 90-04-10453-4
Until 1993, baseball was the only team sport played professionally in Japan.
Until then, the names " Nippon " ( 日本 ; Japan ), " Dai-Nippon " ( 大日本 ; Greater Japan ), " Dai-Nippon /- Nihon Koku " ( 日本國 ; literally State of Japan ), " Nihon Teikoku " ( 日本帝國 ; Empire of Japan ) were all used.
Until modern times, firearms were colloquially known in Japan as " Tanegashima ", due to the belief that they were introduced by the Portuguese on board that ship.
Until the end of 2001, many titles were released on VHS, Laserdisc and DVD in Japan.
Until 1980, meetings were held in Europe and the United States, with the exception of Japan in 1965.
Until 1998, only martial arts practiced in mainland Japan by samurai had been accepted as koryu bujutsu.
Until the 1920s-40s ( around the time of the arrival of Shingon outside Japan ), nothing had ever been published on any Shingon or Mikkyo teachings in Japan or anywhere else.
Until then it had been the largest village in Japan.
" Until Japan ’ s defeat, moreover, the executive had controlled all political documents, depriving the people and the Diet of access to vital information.
Until May 1, 2001 it was a central area of former Urawa City, the capital city of Saitama Prefecture, Japan.
Until the sale of Konica Minolta's Photo Imaging unit to Sony in 2006, Konica Minolta produced the former Minolta range of 35 mm autofocus single-lens reflex cameras, variously named " Minolta Maxxum " in North America, " Minolta Dynax " in Europe, and " Minolta Alpha " in Japan and the rest of Asia.
Until the 1950s, the species wintered in small numbers ( up to about 100 birds annually ) in Japan, but habitat destruction has driven them away.
On January 31, 2007, Glay released their tenth full length studio album, Love is Beautiful, containing 14 tracks, which reached No. 1 spot and was their 10th album to do so, Until then, Glay had been the all-male band with most No. 1 albums in Japan, but later that year Mr. Children would replace them.
Until and University
Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.
Until his retirement in late 2010 he was a professor at Xiamen University, where he taught theoretical physics and computer science, and ran the Artificial Brain lab.
Until recently, Radford University in Virginia used the title “ media studies ” for a department that taught practitioner-oriented major concentrations in journalism, advertising, broadcast production and Web design.
Until the summer of 2009, he was also the Chairman of the British Council and the President of Cardiff University.
Until his death in 1969, twenty years after his return, Adorno contributed to the intellectual foundations of the Federal Republic, as a professor at Frankfurt University, critic of the vogue enjoyed by Heideggerian philosophy, partisan of critical sociology and teacher of music at the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music.
Until 1968, the university had the power to expropriate land " it may deem necessary for the purpose of the University " without approval from the government.
Until 1961, the University formed part of the University of New Zealand ( UNZ ), and issued degrees in its name.
Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.
Until 1967, he held a chair in physics at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
Until the Oxford University Press edition was published in 2000, the available orchestral parts reflected many of the standard D ' Oyly Carte alterations, although the traditionally cut songs were available to those who wanted them.
Until 2003, the boat was housed in a specially constructed glass-fronted display area located between the University Center and Fogelman Arena.
Until July 2006, Dunedin was the home of the main campus of Schiller International University.
Until 1997 Gordon was a Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory.
Until the early 1970s, consulting physicians at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota held joint appointments as professors at the University of Minnesota medical school.
Until his retirement, he holds the chair of Sociology at Lund University.
Until January 2012 it used to hold a 25 % stake in McClelland & Stewart, with the remaining 75 % being controlled by the University of Toronto.
Until today, the University takes pride in these three areas of knowledge as these degree programs in U. P.
Until 2007, he was the founding chair of the Beijing chapter of TEEC ( Tsinghua Entrepreneur and Executive Club ) of Tsinghua University.
Until 2008, the journal was published by the University of Chicago Press on behalf of the American Astronomical Society.
Until recently the number of students at Middlesex University has been declining fast, hitting a four-year low of 21, 350 in the academic year of 2008 – 2009.
Until March 2012 the scientific data placed into the archive and distributed to observers were processed by the XMM-Newton Survey Science Centre led by the University of Leicester, England.
Until June 2010 the estate was also home to Dartington College of Arts, prior to the College's contentious merger with University College Falmouth.
Until his retirement at the age of 70 van der Waals remained at the Amsterdam University.
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