Howard Gest

Project StaffX-10 Graphite Reactor

Oak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Howard Gest worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor. Gest was one of the scientists who signed Leo Szilard’s petition against the use of the atomic bomb.

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