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General Kenneth Nichols and the Manhattan Project
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The Oak Ridger has published the latest in a series of articles about General Kenneth D. Nichols, the Manhattan Project, and the 1954 Atomic Energy Act. The series has been produced by Nichols’ grandniece Barbara Rogers Scollin and Oak Ridge (Tenn.) city historian David Ray Smith. Gen. Nichols (1907–2000) was the district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District during the Manhattan Project.
As Smith and Scollin explain, Nichols “had supervision of the research and development connected with, and the design, construction, and operation of, all plants required to produce plutonium-239 and uranium-235, including the construction of the towns of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Richland, Washington. The responsibility of his position was massive as he oversaw a workforce of both military and civilian personnel of approximately 125,000; his Oak Ridge office became the center of the wartime atomic energy’s activities.”
Plutonium Futures - The Science 2024
Nik Kaltsoyannis was educated at both undergraduate and doctoral levels at the University of Oxford, UK, completing his DPhil with Professor Jennifer Green in 1992. He subsequently moved to the USA, first to a University Postdoctoral Fellowship at The University of Ohio State with Professor Bruce Bursten, and then to a NATO Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory with Dr Norman Edelstein. He returned to the UK in 1994, and spent 21 years on the academic staff at University College London, becoming full Professor of Computational Chemistry in 2007. In 2015 he moved to the University of Manchester, where he is currently Professor and Head of Computational Chemistry, and Co‑Director of the Centre for Radiochemistry Research. His research interests focus on the quantum chemical study of molecular and extended solid compounds of the f elements. He has authored more than 200 primary research articles, an f element textbook, and several book chapters and reviews.
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