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Manhattan Project (1942–45)

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  • Lt. General Kenneth Banks Cooper (1923 - 2007)
    Kenneth Banks Cooper, business executive, former army officer, retired military officer. Decorated Legion of Merit (2), Distinguished Service Medal (2), D.D.S.M. Member Society Military Engrs, Army N...
  • Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman (1888 - 1966)
    Colonel John Hamilton Ruckman John Hamilton Ruckman graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California. He distinguished himself in World War I, in the Saize...
  • Herbert York (1921 - 2009)
    Herbert Frank York (24 November 1921 – 19 May 2009) was an American nuclear physicist of Mohawk origin. He held numerous research and administrative positions at various United States government and ...
  • Lloyd Elmer Elmersson Liljequist (1921 - 2011)
    Reference: MyHeritage Family Trees - SmartCopy : Feb 9 2023, 18:24:56 UTC * Notes : Hancock Lloyd E. Liljequest, 90, a well-known area resident formerly of Hancock and the Bluffs Senior Living Commun...
  • Lieutenant General Roscoe Charles Wilson (1905 - 1986)
    Roscoe Charles Wilson (June 11, 1905 – August 21, 1986) was a United States Air Force general who was Commandant of the Air War College from 1951 to 1954 and Deputy Chief of Staff, Development, from ...

Wikipedia

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Some 600,000 men and women have worked on the Manhattan project.

Chicago Metallurgical Lab

  • Director: Robert Mulliken

MIT Radiation Lab

Oak Ridge

Los Alamos

  • Director: J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Theoretical Division: Hans Bethe

Nobel prize winners (or winners-to-be)

  • Niels Bohr (1922)
  • James Franck (1925)
  • Arthur Compton (1927)
  • Herald Urey (Chemistry, 1934)
  • James Chadwick (1935)
  • Enrico Fermi (1938)
  • Ernest Lawrence (1939)
  • I. I. Rabi (1944)
  • Hermann Muller (Physiology or Medicine, 1946)
  • Edwin McMillan (Chemistry, 1951)
  • Glenn Seaborg (Chemistry, 1951)
  • Felix Bloch (1952)
  • Edward Purcell (1952)
  • Emilio Segrè (1959)
  • Owen Chamberlain (1959)
  • Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960)
  • Eugene Wigner (1963)
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963)
  • Richard Feynman (1965)
  • Julian Schwinger (1965)
  • Robert Mulliken (Chemistry, 1966)
  • Hans Bethe (1967)
  • Luis Alvarez (1968)
  • James Rainwater (1975)
  • Aage Bohr (1975)
  • Val Fitch (1980)
  • Jerome Karle (Chemistry, 1985)
  • Norman Ramsey (1989)
  • Joseph Rotblat (Peace, 1995)
  • Frederick Reines (1995)
  • Roy Glauber (2005)