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Kenneth Nichols

1907 - 2000

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Kenneth David Nichols CBE (13 November 1907 – 21 February 2000) was an officer in the United States Army, and a civil engineer who worked on the secret Manhattan Project, which developed the atomic bomb during World War II. He served as Deputy District Engineer to James C. Marshall, and from 13 August 1943 as the District Engineer of the Manhattan Engineer District. Nichols led both the uranium production facility at the Clinton Engineer Works at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the plutonium production facility at Hanford Engineer Works in Washington state. Nichols remained with the Manhattan Project after the war until it was taken over by the Atomic Energy Commission in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Kenneth Nichols has received more than 529,673 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Kenneth Nichols is the 224th most popular engineer, the 4,736th most popular biography from United States and the 19th most popular American Engineer.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

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    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Kenneth Nichols ranks 224 out of 389. Before him are Ma Jun, Georgy Beriev, Seymour Cray, Ed Heinemann, Eugène Belgrand, and Léon Serpollet. After him are Charles Renard, Antoine Nicolas Duchesne, Frederick W. Lanchester, Johann Georg Halske, Jean-Baptiste Élie de Beaumont, and Marc Isambard Brunel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Kenneth Nichols ranks 196. Before him are Polina Osipenko, Volmari Iso-Hollo, Jack Albertson, Günter Eich, Peggy Ashcroft, and Martti Miettunen. After him are George Raynor, František Junek, James A. Michener, Georges Speicher, John G. Trump, and Edmond Delfour. Among people deceased in 2000, Kenneth Nichols ranks 155. Before him are Frédéric Dard, George Segal, John Ljunggren, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Gisèle Freund, and Stephanos Christopoulos. After him are Putra of Perlis, Joey Dunlop, Henry Eriksson, Ernst Jandl, Jim Varney, and Anatoli Firsov.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Kenneth Nichols ranks 4,736 out of 20,380. Before him are Paula Patton (1975), Frederic Clements (1874), John Spencer (1946), Corey Taylor (1973), Howard Stern (1954), and George Seaton (1911). After him are John Bennett Perry (1941), Ward Bond (1903), Carrie Snodgress (1945), Gary Gygax (1938), Joan Wallach Scott (1941), and Frances Cleveland (1864).

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Among ENGINEERS In United States

Among engineers born in United States, Kenneth Nichols ranks 19. Before him are Emily Warren Roebling (1843), Gene Kranz (1933), Kelly Johnson (1910), Charles F. Brush (1849), Seymour Cray (1925), and Ed Heinemann (1908). After him are Aron Ralston (1975), Jon Postel (1943), Butler Lampson (1943), Eugene Polley (1915), Hendrik Wade Bode (1905), and Preston Tucker (1903).

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