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[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: KERST DONALD WILLIAM (1911-1993) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II, taking responsibility for designing and building the Water Boiler, a nuclear reactor and the first to use enriched uranium as a fuel. Manuscript D.S., D. W. Kerst, one page, 4to, n.p., 2nd June 1950. Kerst responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled World Inquiry, with their manuscript questions at the head of the page, '1. Were your scientific “debut” easy or difficult? 2. Did means of living…..enable you to make yourself known in science? Or did you live solely through your work of laboratory? 3. What work (or what discovery) made yourself more famous? Which do you consider as your masterpiece?'. Kerst provides his answers beneath, in full, '1. The debut was made easily through the usual process of a graduate student of physics publishing research while working toward a doctor's degree. 2. I lived solely by my work in the university. 3. I am probably better known for my work in developing the betatron, but I have always worked in high voltage nuclear research particularly with the Van der Graaf electrostatic generator', adding his signature at the foot of the page. One minor, light stain to the right edge, only very slightly affecting a few words of Kerst's text, but not the signature. About VG
