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E. B. Montgomery

Project StaffHanford, WA

Chicago, IL
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

E.B.Montgomery (Edward Benjamin Montgomery) was a nuclear physicist who later worked as a computer scientist. He was employed by DuPont during World War II. He worked under Enrico Fermi in Chicago, machining the graphite blocks used to assemble the Chicago Pile-1. He was later transferred to Hanford.

Montgomery went on to become dean of the Syracuse University School of Information Sciences, and later a professor of biomedical engineering at University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas.

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