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Another Manhattan Project Scientist Dies



In the January 3, 1997 San Jose Mercury News the following
was reported:

>McKay, Norman H., 79,
>
>an atomic scientist who worked on the Manhattan Project during
>World War II; December 22 in Albuquerque, NM.  Mr. McKay
>helped pioneer nuclear weapons research at Oak Ridge, TN, and
>Los Alamos, NM.  After the war he became director of nuclear
>materials and management for the Atomic Energy Commission,
>forerunner of the US Department of Energy.  He also had served as
>a liason between the US and British governments on nuclear
>matters.


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