This story appears in the December 2008 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe Â». Starting a business was the last thing on Sean Hackney's mind when he sat down to write a business plan. Hoping to persuade a soft drink company to hire him, Hackney scripted a plan for taking on his former employer, Red Bull North America Inc.
1 Nuclear energy was first discovered accidentally by French physicist Henri Becquerel in 1896, when he found that photographic plates stored in the dark near uranium were blackened like X-ray plates, which had been just recently discovered at the time.
H.G. Wells was the first to envision a nuclear weapon driven by nuclear fission, when he wrote of air dropped 'atomic bombs' in his 1914 novel, The World Set Free. At the time, Wells did not know of the destructive power the such weapons would one day harness.eo Szilard invented the nuclear reactor and nuclear bomb in London in 1933, shortly after the neutron was discovered as an improved source of neutrons for experiments. He was also very aware of their potential destructive effects. He was not able to build either at the time because of lack of a suitable material.