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Robert S. Cole

Research AssociateChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Robert S. Coles was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory during the Manhattan Project. He is the younger brother of Kenneth Stewart Cole, who was a biophysicist and also worked at the Met Lab. 

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