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IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 12, 1946
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GENERAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE,
TO ADVISE THE ATOMIC ENERGY COMMISSION.
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JAMES B. CONANT, President of Harvard University. Chairman,
National Defense Research Committee. Dr. Conant has had a leading
role in the policy formation of the Atomic Energy Project since its
earliest days.
LEE A. DU BRIDGE, President of the California Institute of
Technology. War-time Director, Radiation Laboratory of OSRD at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dr. DuBridge is an outstanding
experimental physicist with broad experience, and distinguished sci-
entific leader not connected with the Atomic Energy Project 'previously.
ENRICO FERT, Winner of Nobel prize in physics. Professor
of Physics, University of Chicago. An outstanding experimental and
theoretical physicist who has played the leading role scientifically
in the roalization of the nuclear chain reaction.
J. R. OPPENHEIMER, Professor of Theoretical Physics, Univer-
sity of California. Vor-time Director, Los Alamos Laboratories of the
Manhattan Project. Member, State Department Board of Consultants
responsible for the Report on the International Control of Atomic
Energy. An outstanding theorotical physicist with the broadest in-
sight into all the probloms in the development of atomic energy.
I. I. RARI, Winner of Nobel prize in physics. Professor of
physics, Columbia University. Viar-tine Associate Director, Radiation
Laboratory of OSRD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
consultant for the Los Alamos Laboratories of the Manhattan Project.
An outstanding experimental physicist and a recognized leader whose
counsel has been widely sought on scientific questions.
HAR.TLEY ROVE, Vice President and Chief Engineer, United
Fruit Company. In. charge of Transportation Equipment Development for
the OSRD; Technical Advisor to SHAEF; engineering advisor and consult-
ant to the Manhattan Project. Mr. Rowe is widely recognized for his
experience and achievements in engineering.
GLENN I. SEABORG, Professor of Chemistry, University of
California. A chief radio-chemist for the Manhattan Project at the
Metallurgical Laboratory of the University of Chicago. Outstanding
for his work in the discovery and elucidation of plutonium and other
elements beyond uranium.
CYRIL STANLEY SMITH, Director, Institute of Metals, Univer-
sity of Chicago. In charge of wor-time metallurgical work, Los Alamos
Laboratories of the Manhattan Project. An outstanding sciontific
motallurgist with vide experience and success in the developmont of
spocial materials for the Atomic Energy Projoct.
HOOD WORTHINGTON, Chemical Engincer, E. I. DuPont de Nemours
and Company. Closely associated with design, construction, and oper-
ation of the Hanford Enginecr Norks of the Manhattan Project and a
rocognized authority on the design, construction, and operation of
nuclear reactors.