in charge of the P-7 Group
08/1943 AD hired
Kerst is placed in charge of the Laboratory's P-7 Group, which was responsible for designing and building the Water Boiler, a nuclear reactor intended to serve as a laboratory instrument to test critical mass calculations and the effect of various tamper materials.
Kerst's engineering and physics background had placed him near the top of the list of scientists that Robert Oppenheimer recruited for the Manhattan Project's Los Alamos Laboratory, which was set up to design the atomic bomb.
Primarily drawn from Purdue University, the P-7 Group included Charles P. Baker, Gerhart Friedlander, Lindsay Helmholtz, Marshall Holloway, and Raemer Schreiber. Robert F. Christy provided help with the theoretical calculations.
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Subjects Who or What hired?
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Los Alamos National Laboratory Los Alamos National ... -
J. Robert Oppenheimer American theoretical phy...
Objects To Whom or What was hired?
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Donald William Kerst American physicist who w...
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