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Forrest H. Murray

Research AssociateChicago, IL

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Forrest H. Murray was a research associate in the Theoretical Group and a mathematician at the University of Chicago Met Lab. He was later transferred to Oak Ridge and signed a petition similar to the Szilard petition. In 1946, he and Alvin Weinberg co-authored the first paper to describe a pressurized-water nuclear reactor. 

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