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Arthur Squires

Chemical EngineerManhattan, NY

Cambridge, MA
EngineerManhattan Project Veteran
Listen to Arthur Squires’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Arthur Squires was born in Kansas and received a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Missouri. He went on to Cornell University for his graduate degree, before joining the Manhattan Project in 1942. Squires was a chemical engineer and participated in the design, construction, and operation of the K-25 diffusion plant at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, working under Percival Keith and Manson Benedict in New York.

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