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Haydn Jones was a research assistant in the Physics Division at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.According to Nuclear EnergyJones later worked at Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN (Weinberg, ed., p. 128).

At the Met Lab, Jones was also the supervisor of the laboratory’s shop (Holl, Hewlett, and Harris, p. 13). In the Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg, Vol 2., Seaborg noted that Jones attended a Project Council Information Meeting on Nuclear Physics on March 7, 1944 (Seaborg, p. 469).

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