George A. Ullrich was a chemist who performed analytical research at Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project.
After being drafted into the U.S. Army in 1944, Ullrich was sent to Oak Ridge to work for the Manhattan Project. He served as a supervisor at the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant. This factory helped produce the enriched uranium used for the atomic bomb.
Early Years
George Anthony Ullrich was born in Utica, New York on April 25, 1922. He graduated from St. Michael’s College of the University of Toronto, Canada in 1943. Following one year of graduate work in physics, Ullrich was drafted into the U.S. Army.
Later Years
Following World War II, Ullrich pursued a Master’s in Education degree from the University of Rochester. Once he graduated in 1947, Ullrich became a science instructor at Brockport State Teacher’s College. During this period, he also did additional graduate work at Syracuse University. On August 7, 1948, he married his college roommate’s sister, Marion F. Saeli.
From 1952 to 1954, Ullrich worked to complete his Ph.D. in education at Ohio State University. He never finished his doctoral dissertation, though. Instead, he decided to make a career as a high school science teacher. Between 1954 and 1965, Ullrich taught at Monroe High School. Afterward, he became the Science Department Head at John Marshall High School. In 1983, he retired from active teaching.
At the age of eighty-one, George Anthony Ullrich died in Rochester, New York on November 13, 2003.
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