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Joseph C. McGuire

ChemistOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment
Y-12 Calutron Girls

Joseph Mcguire was a chemist with the Special Engineering Detachment at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war, McGuire became a civilian scientist for Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas Laboratories, and Westinghouse Laboratories in Richland, Washington. 

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