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J.H. Manley became active in nuclear physics at Columbia as a faculty member with I.I. Rabi, John Dunning and others in 1934, and joined the Metallurgical Laboratory at Chicago under A.H. Compton in January 1942 while on leave from Illinois. He assisted J.R. Oppenheimer in planning and establishing the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, to which he moved for what turned out to be a total of 23 years before becoming a consultant – his present status. He was Executive Secretary of the General Advisory Committee (USAEC) during the first four years of Oppenheimer's chairmanship.
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Manley, J. Lives of the stars. Nature 284, 668–670 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/284668a0
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