Dr. Dick Duffey

Dr. Dick Duffey was born in La Fontaine Indiana. He earned degrees at Purdue University, the University of Iowa, and the University of Maryland. During World War II, he worked for the Union Carbide Uranium Project. Later, he joined the U.S. Army's Manhattan Engineering District Corps of Engineers. He utilized his background in chemical engineering and contributed to research in Hanford, Los Alamos, and Oak Ridge. He retired with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and received an Army Commendation Ribbon for his work on the atomic bomb. After the war, he became a consultant for the U.S. Atomic Energy Comission, serving as the technical secretary for seven years. In 1954, he joined the chemical engineering department at the University of Maryland and later became a professor in the Nuclear Energy Department.