Guest Trivia Answer:
First, thanks to Scott Wise for the guest trivia question!
Chemist Max Roy, who earned a BA (1931) and MA (1933) from Rice and a PhD (1937) from the University of Illinois Urbana, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos and became director of the Explosives Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1946. Also, he funded the Max Roy Scholarship at Rice.
And, interestingly, Mike Ross’ father, Donald Ross, a 19-year-old chemistry graduate of UT Austin, helped supervise uranium isotope separation on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge. (Thanks, Mike Ross!)
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