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B. Roswell Russell

Project StaffChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

B. Roswell Russell worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. He was one of seventy signers of the Szilard Petition.

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