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Wendell Edwards

Columbia University
African-American

Wendell Edwards was born in Snow Hill, Alabama in 1907. Although his father was the founder of Snow Hill Institute in 1893, He graduated from Laurinburg Institute in 1925. From there he attended Talladega College, and graduated with a degree in Mathematics and Physics. He later attended Columbia University during the formation of the Manhattan Project, and graduated with a Masters Degree in Mathematics and Physics. He did research under Professors Fermi, Szilard, Zinn, and Anderson. His identification card listed him as a Junior Physicist. He died on May 25, 1975.

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