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Gordon N. Steele

Oak Ridge, TN

In 1942 Gordon joined the Radiation Laboratory at the Berkeley campus. He worked at the Davis campus as well.

Oswald Greager

Hanford, WA

Before the war Oswald Greager was a high-ranking DuPont chemist. He took leave from DuPont in 1942 to join the Army's Chemical Warfare Service.

Hans Halban

France

Hans von Halban (1908-1964) was an Austrian born French physicist. He finished his studies in 1934.  He joined nuclear physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, where he and Otto Frisch discovered that heavy water had very little neutron absorption compared to normal water.

Elzie Chapman

Tinian Island

Elzie Chapman served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.