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James F. Nolan
July 14, 2015
James F. “Jim” Nolan was a Captain in the US Army Medical Corps, the Chief Medical Officer for the Los Alamos site of the Manhattan Project, and a Special Consultant to Project Alberta on Tinian Island. An early recruit to the Manhattan Project, he was deeply involved in the history of the atomic bomb throughout […]
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William L. Murphy
July 13, 2015
William L. Murphy was a Technical Sargeant in the US Army who worked as part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs in July and August 1945. Murphy also served at Los Alamos.
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Leonard Motichko
Leonard Motichko worked as a part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs in August 1945. Motichko also served in the Army at Los Alamos.
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Donald F. Mastick
July 9, 2015
Donald Francis Mastick was an American chemist who worked at Los Alamos and on Tinian as part of Project Alberta. Mastick received his B.S. in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1942. One of Berkeley’s most promising chemistry students, Mastick was recruited to join the Manhattan Project by J. Robert Oppenheimer. Mastick arrived […]
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Bernard Waldman
July 7, 2015
Bernard Waldman (1913-1986) was an American physicist who became the Associate Director of the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University (NSCL). Waldman worked on the Manhattan Project in multiple capacities. Arriving at Los Alamos in 1943 after a five year stretch on the physics faculty at the University of Notre Dame, he became […]
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Henry Linschitz
June 26, 2015
Henry Linschitz worked in Project Alberta, which transported and assembled the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs.
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William J. Larkin
William J. Larkin worked in Project Alberta as part of the team that transported and assembled the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs.
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Lawrence Langer
Lawrence Langer served in the Special Engineering Detachment and Project Alberta as part of the team that transported and assembled the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs.
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Jesse Kupferberg
Jesse Kupferberg was a Technical Sargeant in the US Army who participated in Project Alberta, the group tasked with transporting and assembling the two atomic bombs in 1945. He flew in the Great Artiste to observe the Nagasaki mission.
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Roger S. Warner, Jr.
June 23, 2015
Roger S. Warner, Jr. was a civilian scientist who worked as part of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled all the components of the two atomic bombs before the August 1945 bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Warner was the chief of the assembly group that put together the Fat Man plutonium bomb. That bomb […]