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David Hall

Head of Reactor DivisionLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Listen to David Hall’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

David Hall and his wife, Jane Hamilton, went as a team to Hanford. Also a physicist, she worked in the medical-safety division. In later years, he became head of the reactor division at Los Alamos and Jane Hamilton was the assistant director at Los Alamos.

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