Roderick W. Spence

Physical ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranPostwar Nuclear ProgramScientist

Roderick W. Spence was an American physical chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. He later ran the Radiochemistry Group at Los Alamos for the post-war nuclear program. Spence later noted on Los Alamos, “There was an aura, a sense of something about the place. . . . It’s hard to describe.”

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