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Eric Jette
Group Leader - Los Alamos
Plutonium Metallurgy
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In 1943, Eric Jette was a Professor of Metallurgy at Columbia University's
School of Mines. As his wife Eleanor noted: "He was a classical,
physical chemist gone wrong. What he meant was that he took his Ph.
D. in physical chemistry, and later, when he went abroad as a
Scandinavian-American Scholar, he became interested in metallurgy, and
made it his career". In 1943, at about the same time that his laboratory at Columbia was being taken over by the Chemical Warfare Service, Eric was recruited by A. B. (Gus) Kinzel of the Union Carbide Company, who was working as a consultant for the Corps of Engineers, to relocate to Los Alamos, NM to work on a very important super-secret project.. Soon after, Eric, his wife Eleanor, and their son, William, arrived on the mesa at Los Alamos. Eric immediately went to work under Cyril Smith, who was at that time in charge of metallurgy at the laboratory. Throughout the war years, Eric Jette worked laboriously on the metallurgical aspects of the new element plutonium. After the war, the Jette's remained at Los Alamos where Eric became a Division Leader. In the mid-fifties, Eric accepted a position as Director of the Research Institute for Union Carbide Corporation in New York where he remained until his retirement. In the early sixties, the Jette's returned to New Mexico. Eric Jette passed away in 1963 and his wife, Eleanor, died less than a year later. |
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