Henry DeWolf Smyth
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Henry DeWolf "Harry" Smyth was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a
Henry De Wolf Smyth
Smyth in the Princeton University yearbook, 1918
Smyth (right) with Richard Tolman, who chaired the Postwar Policy Committee.
Smyth was a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission from 1949 to 1954.
Smyth Report
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The Smyth Report is the common name of an administrative history written by the American physicist Henry DeWolf Smyth about the Manhattan Project, the Allied effort to develop atomic bombs during Worl
Henry DeWolf Smyth
…and an administrator consultant on the Manhattan Project. He wrote the Manhattan Project's first public official history, which came to be known as the Smyth Report. On the AEC from 1949 to 1954, Smyth initially argued unsuccessfully against a crash course to develop the hydrogen bomb and in favor of international…
Cover of 1945 Princeton edition
Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson (right) and his advisors review the 2nd Armored Division in Germany in July 1945. Left to right: Major General Floyd L. Parks, General George S. Patton, Jr., Colonel William H. Kyle, John J. McCloy, Harvey H. Bundy