The Ames Connection to WWII’s Manhattan Project – Ames History Museum
February 25 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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The Ames Connection to WWII’s Manhattan Project Wed., Feb. 25, 7 p.m. |
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Attend in person: Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Ave. Attend virtually: Register for the Zoom link Speaker: Kathy Svec, daughter of a Project researcher The desperate, top-secret race during World War II to master the military technology of nuclear fission before Nazi Germany played out in 32 sites across the U.S. and Canada. The story of how Ames became one of these sites will be told by the speaker, whose father, Harry J. Svec, was pulled into the research while a graduate student in Chemistry at Iowa State. The role that small group of scientists at a Midwest college played was critical to the timing and success of the Project. |