George Svilha

Project StaffChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

B. Roswell Russell worked in the Health Group at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. He was one of seventy signers of the Szilard Petition.

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