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J. P. Moore

ChemistGrand Junction, CO

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Listen to J. P. Moore’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

J. P. Moore worked as a chemist for US Vanadium Company and then as Chief Chemist at Grand Junction, CO, where he analyzed uranium. He worked for Union Carbide for forty years.

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