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Robert Kupp

Chemical EngineerOak Ridge, TN

K-25 Plant
EngineerManhattan Project Veteran
Robert Kupp Listen to Robert Kupp’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Robert Kupp joined the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge in January 1945. Kupp was a supervisor in the Line Recorder Department at K-25, where he monitored a mass spectrometer that determined the concentration of various material in the cascade while it was being processed. After the war, Kupp went on to a prestigious career as a nuclear engineer and published a book about his work experiences, A Nuclear Engineer in the Twentieth Century.

Robert Kupp’s Timeline
1945 Jan Joined the Manhattan Project

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