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Lombard Squires

EngineerHanford, WA

Chicago, IL
EngineerManhattan Project Veteran
Lombard Squires Listen to Lombard Squires’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Lombard "Lom" Squires went out to Hanford in June, 1944, as a chief supervisor in plutonium inspections. He coordinated with Glenn Seaborg and the Metallurgical Laboratory to engineer the separations process.

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