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.
The Nazi Germany Nuclear Energy project began in April 1939, just after the discovery of Nuclear Fission in Jan. 1939. The first effort ended after several months, but the second effort was controlled by the German Army Ordnance office on the day after WWII began.