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Walter E. Jordan

PhysicistChicago, IL

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranScientist
Walter E. Jordan
Walter E. Jordan worked on the Manhattan Project as an employee of DuPont on the physics staff.  He worked at  the University of Chicago and Hanford, WA. Immediately prior to Chicago he was in Tulsa, Oklahoma and near Jeffersonville, Indiana; this may have been project preparation. He had a PhD in physics from Ohio State University. He retired as a Research Manager at DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware
Walter E. Jordan's Timeline
1909 Born in Ashtabula, OH.
1932 Received his undergraduate degree from the College of Wooster.
1978 Died in Pompano Beach, Florida.

Physics Staff 100 Technical – HEW Feb. 1945. Front, L-R: Leona Marshall, John B. Miles, Hood Worthington, Walter E. Jordan.  Back row: George L. Weil, Charles W. J. Wende, John Marshall, W. Kelly Woods, W. Rudy Kanne,  John A. Wheeler, Sid Kuniansky

A postcard from Hanford during the Manhattan Project

A postcard from Hanford during the Manhattan Project

A postcard from Hanford during the Manhattan Project, written in Finnish

A postcard from Hanford during the Manhattan Project

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