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Donald Webster

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Donald Webster was a research assistant at the Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project. He received a B.S. from Pennsylvania State University and was working for the DuPont Company when he was contracted to work at Chicago. He went on to work at Oak Ridge and Hanford as well. Webster also worked at the Argonne National Laboratory after the war.

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