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Carl Higby

Operations SupervisorHanford, WA

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Carl Higby Listen to Carl Higby’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

After graduating Washington State University in 1950, Carl Higby was recruited to work at Hanford as an operations supervisor for the reactors.

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