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Kenneth Nichols

1907 - 2000

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Kenneth David Nichols CBE (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000) was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. Nichols led both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state. Nichols remained with the Manhattan Project after the war until it was taken over by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. He was the military liaison officer with the Atomic Energy Commission from 1946 to 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Nichols is the 304th most popular engineer (down from 224th in 2019), the 7,998th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,736th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular American Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Kenneth Nichols ranks 304 out of 389. Before him are Frederick Terman, Alan Shugart, Georgy Langemak, Percy Hobart, Boris Lisunov, and Hesham Qandil. After him are Robert W. Paul, Georgy Babakin, John R. Pierce, Mal Evans, Vladimir Mikhailovich Myasishchev, and Robert H. Dennard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Kenneth Nichols ranks 309. Before him are Earl Tupper, Warren E. Burger, John King Fairbank, Albert Ammons, Edward James, and Ethel Lackie. After him are Shivakumara Swami, Tamara Makarova, Luiz Gervazoni, Efraín Amézcua, Maurice Cloche, and Francis Frederick. Among people deceased in 2000, Kenneth Nichols ranks 245. Before him are Lepo Sumera, Jean Dotto, Yokozuna, Ji Pengfei, Paul Van den Broeck, and Annie Palmen. After him are Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Alfred Bohrmann, Beah Richards, Matija Ljubek, Tofig Guliyev, and Petter Hugsted.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Nichols ranks 8,000 out of 20,380. Before him are Jamie Dimon (1956), Nils Lofgren (1951), Kristine Sutherland (1955), Scott Derrickson (1966), Brian Hyland (1943), and Gordon Parks (1912). After him are D. J. Fontana (1931), Joel-Peter Witkin (1939), Michael Kremer (1964), Adam Lambert (1982), Cordwainer Smith (1913), and Jason Sudeikis (1975).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Kenneth Nichols ranks 32. Before him are Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Eugene Polley (1915), Burt Rutan (1943), Frederick Terman (1900), and Alan Shugart (1930). After him are Robert H. Dennard (1932), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Sidney Darlington (1906), Preston Tucker (1903), Gordon Bell (1934), and Beatrice Hicks (1919).

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