Kenneth Nichols

Kenneth Nichols

Kenneth David Nichols (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000) was the deputy to General Leslie Groves in the American project to develop the Atomic Bomb in World War II. He was a United States Army officer and an engineer. Later he was General Manager of the United States Atomic Energy Commission.

During the Manhattan Project he was based at the uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and he was also responsible for the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works.

He was born in West Park, Cleveland, Ohio. He graduated from West Point in 1929. He died in Bethesda, Maryland.

Links

* [http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/kdnichols.htm Entry from "Arlington Cemetery" website]
* [http://books.nap.edu/openbook.php?record_id=10403&page=182 Picture from "National Academy of Engineering" website]
* [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=N035 Entry from "Tennessee Encyclopaedia"]
* [http://www.algerclan.org/getperson.php?personID=I42008&tree=Alger Family Details]
* [http://alsos.wlu.edu/qsearch.aspx?browse=people/Nichols,+Kenneth Bibliography for Kenneth Nichols from the Alsos Digital Library]

References

"The Road to Trinity" by Kenneth D. Nichols (1987, Morrow, New York) ISBN 068806910X


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