Cyril Stanley Smith
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Cyril Stanley Smith was a British metallurgist and historian of science. He is most famous for his work on the Manhattan Project where he was responsible for the production of fissionable metals. A gr
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Cyril Smith's Los Alamos badge
The Institute for the Study of Metals was located in the old Stagg Field until 1951
De la pirotechnia
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De la Pirotechnia is considered to be one of the first printed books on metallurgy to have been published in Europe. It was written in Italian and first published in Venice in 1540. The author was Van
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…that he had disliked at school. He acquired old texts, and in 1945 he produced a translation of a classic metallurgical text, Vannocio Biringuccio's De la pirotechnia (1540). In 1942, during World War II, he was called into service at the War Metallurgy Committee in Washington, D.C. In April 1943 he went to work on…
Title page, De la pirotechnia, 1540, Science History Museum