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Elmer Kelly

ScientistTinian Island

Oak Ridge, TNUniversity of California, Berkeley
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist
Elmer Kelly Listen to Elmer Kelly’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Elmer began working with the Manhattan Project in 1941. He was one of the first people to arrive at Oak Ridge and experienced first-hand some of the difficulties there with cyclotrons and isotope separation. 

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