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Charles Robert Emigh

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranScientistSpecial Engineer Detachment
Charles Robert Emigh in 1949

Bob Emigh was in the Navy and worked with Deak Parsons on telemetry for the bombs. He was assigned as the science officer for the planned third bomb.

After the War, he got his PhD in physics at University of Illinois, then spent many years in Los Alamos, as part of Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory, and finally, University of New Mexico-Los Alamos. 

Charles Robert Emigh’s Timeline
1920 Apr 7th Born in Seattle WA.

2016 Jul 31st Died in Los Alamos, NM.

Charles Robert Emigh in uniform in 1944 in Central Park

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