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John W. Calkin

Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

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John W. Calkin graduated from Columbia University in 1933. He then earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard.

During World War II he worked on a National Defense Research Committee with the Institute for Advanced Study. He also worked as a scientists for the Bureau of Ordnance of the Navy, before working as a staff member at Los Alamos.

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