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Dick Kosh

PhysicistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist

Dick Kosh was an American physicist. 

He worked at the Los Alamos site during the war, arriving from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and then stayed afterwards. Eventually, he became the head of the Los Alamos National Laboratory’s physics division.  

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