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Black Inventors: Edwin Roberts Russell Was a Trailblazing Chemist
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1:17Now PlayingEdwin Roberts Russell was a trailblazing chemist.
In 1942, he attended the University of Chicago to pursue a Ph.D. in surface chemistry. There, Russell became one of the few Black scientists to join the top-secret Manhattan Project. While he did not work on the atomic bomb directly, his research was instrumental in isolating and extracting Plutonium-239 from uranium, the raw material used for nuclear fission.
Following World War II, Russell would earn 11 patents for research in fields from nuclear energy to radioactive waste treatment.
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