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Reuben McCord was a chemist who worked at several Manhattan Project sites. After graduating from Erskine College in South Carolina, he was recruited to work at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory. In 1943 he began working at the Oak Ridge project site. Later on, he would also spend time at the Hanford project site.

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