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Jimmy Vale

PhysicistUniversity of California, Berkeley

Manhattan Project VeteranScientist
Listen to Jimmy Vale’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Jimmy Vale joined the Manhattan Project in 1943, where he helped operate calutrons as part of Ernest O. Lawrence’s particle accelerator team.

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