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Gordon Knobeloch

ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranScientistSpecial Engineer Detachment
Listen to Gordon Knobeloch’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Gordon Knobeloch was drafted into the Army directly out of Washington University in St. Louis. He was deployed to Los Alamos. There, he worked on the RaLa experiments, which were critical for developing the implosion-style plutonium bomb.

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