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[Johnny]

Originally Posted By: MolaKule
BTW, I know this is nitpicking, but the Manhattan Project's Scientific Director was J Robert Oppenheimer.

Enrico Fermi led the Metallurgical Laboratory under Stagg Field in Chicago.

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In Chicago, he [Joe Lencki] met Manhattan Project director Enrico Fermi and he perfected his zMAX formula.


I read nowhere in Enrico Fermi's or any else's Manhattan Project memoirs about Fermi helping Lencki or anyone else develop a lubricant, as this statement implies.

I strongly advise that sentence 2 of paragraph three be deleted, as this is patently inaccurate.

http://www.zmax.com/our_company/formula/


I received the following response to this in an email. I would suggest any further questioning of this statement be conducted directly with them.

On the subject of Lencki knowing Fermi, Lencki did tell Sr and I that he met Fermi thru the Dodge Chicago Plant. The fact that Fermi didn't write anything about it,doesn't mean that it didn't happen. Lencki even told us that he was one of the witnesses at Stagg Field when they conducted the procedure.

 

[MolaKule]

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Lencki even told us that he was one of the witnesses at Stagg Field when they conducted the procedure.


Not to be argumentative, but in this report, "Summary of the activities of the experimental section of the Nuclear Physics Division in the past month
Author(s) Fermi, E.
Publication Date June 1943

Only a handful of people were permitted near the pile, and only 49 dignitaries were allowed to witness
due to potential radiation effects and security measures:

Harold M. Agnew— Retired, living in California.
Samuel K. Allison— Died of heart attack in 1965.
Herbert L. Anderson— Died July 16, 1988, of berylliosis.
Wayne Arnold — Deceased.
Hugh M. Barton — Nov. 30, 2004, from congestive heart failure.
Thomas Brill — Died Sept. 28, 1998, in Aurora, Colo., of multiple myelomas.
Robert F. Christy — On faculty at the California Institute of Technology.
Arthur H. Compton— Died of heart attack in 1962.
Enrico Fermi— Died Nov. 28, 1954, of stomach cancer; Argonne's founding director, when it was still the University of Chicago's "Argonne Lab."
Richard J. Fox — Died April 9, 1996, of a stroke.
Stewart Fox — Living in the Bahamas.
Carl. C. Gamertsfelder — Died of a heart attack in 1996.
Alvin C. Graves — Died July 29, 1965, of a heart attack.
Crawford Greenwalt — Died of heart attack in 1993.
David L. Hill — Living in Connecticut.
Norman Hilberry — Died March 28, 1986, of complications from influenza.
William H. Hinch — Died March 26, 2005, in Englewood, Colo., of complications resulting from a diagnosis of pancreatic cancer.
Robert E. Johnson — Living in Illinois.
W.R. Kanne — Died Oct. 24, 1985, of intestinal cancer.
August C. Knuth — Living in Illinois.
Phillip Grant Koontz — Died from a heart attack in 1991 at age 87 in Boulder, Colo.
Herbert E. Kubitschek — Deceased.
Harold V. Lichtenberger — Died Dec. 7, 1993, of stomach cancer.
George M. Maronde — Died April 18, 1966, of a heart attack.
Anthony J. Matz — No information.
George Miller — Living in California.
George D. Monk — No information.
Henry P. Newson — Died in 1978.
Robert G. Nobles — Died June 12, 2007.
Warren E. Nyer — Living in Idaho. Spoke to the World Nuclear University Summer Institute in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on July 22, 2005, about his experience at CP-1.
Wilcox P. Overbeck — Died in 1981 of arteriosclerosis after defeating cancer 10 years earlier.
Howard J. Parsons — Alive and apparently living in California, where he made a short presentation about CP-1, June 2, 2000, at Tuffree Middle School, Placentia.
Gerard S. Pawlicki — Living in Illinois.
Theodore Petry — Living in Illinois, a retired school teacher with four children and nine grandchildren.
David P. Rudolph — Living in West Virginia.
Leon Sayvetz — Living in Puget Sound, Wash., and New York.
Leo Seren — Died Jan. 3, 2002, of heart problems in Evanston, Illinois.
Louis Slotin— Died in radiation accident at Los Alamos, May 30, 1946.
Frank H. Spedding — Died of heart attack in 1984.
William J. Sturm — Died July 25, 1999, of Hepatitis C.
Leo Szilard— Developed bladder cancer, but died May 30, 1964, of heart attack.
Al Wattenberg—Died June 27, 2007, age 90.
Richard J. Watts — Living in New Mexico.
George L. Weil — Died July 1, 1995, at age 87 in Washington, D.C., from stroke and heart problems.
Eugene P. Wigner— Died Jan. 1, 1995, of complications from Alzheimer's disease.
Marvin H. Wilkening — Living in New Mexico.
Volney C. (Bill) Wilson — Retired from General Electric Research Laboratory. Died of natural causes April 1, 2006, at age 96 in Wisconsin.
Leona Woods (Marshall Libby) — Died of anesthesia-induced stroke in 1986.
Walter H. Zinn— Argonne National Laboratory’s first director died at age 93 on Feb. 14, 2000, of a stroke.

Sorry, none of the people who witnessed or assisted this live reactor were named Lencki.

 

[Johnny]

Was there something else to be witness to around 1945-47? Just from what I've read or been told, those two met somewhere between 1945-47 and the above list was published in 1943.

 

[MolaKule]

Fermi was not even in Chicago during this period.

After the Chicago pile went hot, he moved to Los Alamos, then to Hanford Washington, then to Socorro New Mexico.