Kenneth Nichols
United States Army officer and engineer · United States · Scientists · Lived 1907 to 2000 · aged 92
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Something wrong?Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C.
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As a West Point cadet
Argonne National Laboratory established in 1946, in DuPage County, Illinois
Y-12 National Security Complex established 1943 at Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Aerial view of the Able mushroom cloud rising from the lagoon with the Bikini Island visible in the background
Nichols (far left) looks on as President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 in law
Nichols's grave at Arlington National CemeteryAwards
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About this person
Kenneth David Nichols CBE was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. Nichols led both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state.
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