![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ambrose College on the chemistry of powder and explosives. Fortunately, I had taken an extension course at St. So I went to the Metallurgical Lab at Chicago looking for a summer job. Ernie Anderson kept this card handy when he was at Los Alamos. I had decided to go to Iowa City in the fall the university had a fair chemistry department but a superb orchestra. He came back with word that a war project was looking for chemists. Magnusson, was taking courses at the University of Chicago. In the winter of 1941-42, John Wertz, an assistant of Augustana chemistry professor Dr. In recognition of the World War II-Era Classes Reunion in May 1999, here are six condensed essays by or about Augustana graduates whose contributions were significant to the success of the Manhattan Project and to the end of WWII.īy Dr. Although as many as 125,000 people were employed at one time, and hundreds of thousands during the run of the Project, the work was conducted in secrecy from the enemy as well as the American public. ![]() These installations, many of them hidden in mountains and mesas, became tightly guarded communities in the government's effort to develop and produce the most dangerous weapon in the history of the world. and Hanford, Wash., and dozens of smaller sites. The Project took place at three large secret sites: Oak Ridge, Tenn. In response, the government organized the Manhattan Project (1942-1946) to produce two types of atomic weapons, a uranium bomb and a plutonium bomb. In the early 1940s, Germany banned the export of uranium, and the United States feared German scientists were developing a nuclear weapon. (From the Summer 1999 edition of Augustana magazine, reprinted in celebration of Augustana's sesquicentennial in 2010.) From Augustana magazine, Summer 1999 ![]()
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