Trivia Answer:
Chemical engineer Haskell Sheinberg, who earned a BS from Rice in 1941, worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. Click here for a wonderful blog entry by Melissa Kean dated June 26, 2017 after he had passed away.
Norman Hackerman was the Manhattan Project chemist who later became president of Rice. Click here for a Chronicle story by Eric Berger dated January 1, 2004 entitled “Manhattan Project helped land chemist among science elite”.
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