Boyce McDaniel
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Boyce Dawkins McDaniel was an American nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project and later directed the Cornell University Laboratory of Nuclear Studies. McDaniel was skilled in constructi
McDaniel (right) and Norris Bradbury with the "gadget" atom bomb ahead of the Trinity test.
Tower used to hold the Trinity test device for detonation.
Robert R. Wilson
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Robert Rathbun Wilson was an American physicist known for his work on the Manhattan Project during World War II, as a sculptor, and as an architect of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, where
Boyce McDaniel
…After the outbreak of World War II, McDaniel joined Bacher in Los Alamos, New Mexico to work for the Manhattan Project, where he became a part of Robert R. Wilson's cyclotron research team. McDaniel was to have "a crucial role in helping to identify the amount of uranium-235 needed to ... detonate the world's…
Wilson at the Fermilab groundbreaking ceremony
Robert R. Wilson's ID badge photo from Los Alamos
Jane and Robert Wilson with I. I. Rabi (c. 1950)
Wilson had a direct role in the aesthetic design of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Shown here is Robert Rathbun Wilson Hall.