Show Selfridge Discusses Work On Atomic Bomb Project atomic bomb can only be controlled when the sources of its materials are said George C. associate professor of who worked on the Manhattan atomic bomb who came to the university in the fall of 1912 and left the next year to work for the is barred by security reasons from disclosing the true nature of his He does believe that the United States should not disclose the secret of making the bomb until nations have had the opportunity to work out their present differences and agree on some kind of organization to control Returning to the university last Selfridge is now on details of a cooperative program with the United States geological survey for scientific mineral Because many of the known mineral deposits are rapidly the United States will have to find new metal said He believes this can be done by new scientific methods of A native of Selfridge was raised in a mining family in He graduated from the School of Mines at Oregon State college and received his in t economic geology at Columbia Selfridge did geological work in Mexico for several years with Phelps Howe Sound and the American Smelting and Refining and later he spent five years in Canada and western United States as exploration engineer and geologist for Howe Sound A certificate of merit was awarded Selfridge by the United States government for the essential part he played in the winning of the In a letter to President LeRoy D. army engineer I wish to assure you that he made a very material contribution toward the successful accomplishment of the Manhattan |