The Montreal Laboratory was a program established by the National Research Council of Canada in the 1940s during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration with the United Kingdom, an
Canadian Prime Minister Mackenzie King with U. S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill during the Quebec Conference, 18 August 1943, at which the mechanism for cooperation on Tube Alloys was agreed upon
C. D. Howe, Minister of Munitions and Supply
Montreal Laboratory staff in 1944
ZEEP building at the Chalk River Laboratories c. 1945
Tube Alloys was a nuclear weapons research and development programme authorised by the United Kingdom, in August 1941, with the participation of Canada, during the Second World War. Starting before th
Montreal Laboratory
…1940s during World War II to undertake nuclear research in collaboration with the United Kingdom, and to absorb some of the scientists and work of the Tube Alloys nuclear project in Britain. It became part of the Manhattan Project, and designed and built some of the world's first nuclear reactors. After the Fall…
Lord Cherwell, scientific advisor to the prime minister, Air Chief Marshal Sir Charles Portal, Admiral of the Fleet Sir Dudley Pound, and Winston Churchill in June 1941.
William Penney, Otto Frisch, Rudolf Peierls and John Cockcroft each received the Medal of Freedom in May 1947.
University of Birmingham, blue plaque commemorating the authors of the Frisch–Peierls memorandum at the Poynting Physics Building.
Poynting (physics) Building at the University of Birmingham.