Henry DeWolf Smyth


Henry DeWolf Harry Smyth was an American physicist, diplomat, and bureaucrat. He played a number of key roles in the early development of nuclear energy, as a participant in the Manhattan Project, a member of the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission , and U.S. ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency .

Smyth was born May 1, 1898, in Clinton, New York, to Ruth Anne Phelps and Charles Henry Smyth, Jr., a professor of geology at Hamilton College. Woodrow Wilson, then President of Princeton University, convinced Smyth pre to join the faculty at Princeton, and in 1905 the family moved to Princeton, New Jersey.

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