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John Miles was a physicist for the DuPont Company. During the Manhattan Project, he worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab and at Hanford. According to physicist David Hall’s interview on the Voices of the Manhattan Project websiteMiles was responsible for “shepherding” the DuPont physicists who went there to oversee the construction of the plutonium reactors.

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