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Robert F. Christy

Los Alamos, NM

Robert F. Christy (1916-2012) was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist Christy’s doctoral advisor at the University of California, Berkeley was Robert Oppenheimer, but Christy’s initial involvement with the Manhattan Project came at the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.

W. R. Lewis

T-Plant/200 Areas

Lewis worked in the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

John W. Richter

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the University of Illinois.

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.