Horace Russell

Horace Russell was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He graduated from Duke in 1938 with a degree in chemistry and was remembered by his classmates as a brilliant chemist. He undertook graduate studies at Cal Tech with Linus Pauling as his PhD advisor. Dr. Russell then taught at Cal Tech and was the co-author of at least 2 books on inorganic chemistry when he was in his 20s. August 5th, 1944, Russell  was thrown off his horse while riding in a canyon off site. The head injury he suffered was later identified as a laceration of the brain.