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1 author picked Wilhelm's Way as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is such a masterfully-written family story of the humble man who, as a chemistry instructor at then Iowa State College, established the Ames Lab of the Manhattan Project. Harvey Wilhelm's uranium extraction process influenced the outcome of WWII.
His efforts were too late for my mother's three brothers, but my dad--the commander of a B-29 Superfortress with orders for Saipan in September 1945 was spared combat. This is a story important to world history, to WWII history, to Iowa history, to the history of Iowa State University.
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