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Jun 4, 2014 · The Manhattan Project began in late 1942, and along with it a secrecy project of unprecedented scope. The Kellogg Company was given more responsibility for gaseous diffusion research, as well as more funding and resources.
Jul 16, 2020 · Thursday, July 16, 2020. In this edition of “Live with the Hagley Historian” recorded in June, Lucas Clawson discusses the DuPont Company’s role in the Manhattan Project and the development of the first operational nuclear reactors. Using rare documents, footage, and photographs from Hagley’s collection, Lucas describes the top-secret ...
Pierre Samuel du Pont (/ d uː ˈ p ɒ n t /; January 15, 1870 – April 4, 1954) was an American entrepreneur, businessman, philanthropist and member of the prominent du Pont family. He was president of DuPont from 1915 to 1919, and was on its board of directors until 1940.
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1969); Leslie R. Groves, Now It Can Be Told: The Story of the Manhattan Project (New York, 1962). 6. Crawford H. Greenewalt, "Stine's Memorandum," in Hagley Library and Archives, Wilmington, Delaware (hereafter Hagley): E. I. Du Pont de Nemours Atomic Energy Division, including Clinton, Hanford, and Savannah River administrative records, 1957
Mar 31, 2024 · Pierre Samuel du Pont (born January 15, 1870, Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.—died April 5, 1954, Wilmington) was a manufacturer and the largest American munitions producer during World War I. Pierre Samuel du Pont was the great-great-grandson and namesake of the French economist, whose son, Éleuthère Iréné du Pont, began the family’s ...
Hanford. December 16, 1942, found Colonel Franklin T. Matthias of Groves' staff and two DuPont engineers headed for the Pacific Northwest and southern California to investigate possible production sites. Of the possible sites available, none had a better combination of isolation, long construction season, and abundant water for hydroelectric ...
Crawford H. Greenewalt, 1902-1993, was an executive with the DuPont Company and president of the firm from 1948 to 1962. In 1942, when the DuPont Company agreed to participate in the Manhattan Project, Greenewalt was named chief liaison, working with the physicists at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory, including Arthur Compton ...
