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Tom Gary

Head of Design Division, DuPontHanford, WA

Project Worker/Staff
Listen to Tom Gary’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Tom Gary headed the design division at the DuPont Company and served on the committee which decided among the proposed fissionable material production and purification processes. 

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