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Thomas Brill

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Thomas Brill was a research assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. 

Brill died on September 15, 1998 in Aurora, CO at the age of 78 of multiple myelomas.

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