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[MANHATTAN PROJECT]: CREUTZ EDWARD (1913-2009) American physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory and the Los Alamos Laboratory during World War II. Typed D.S., E Creutz, one page, 4to, Carnegie Institute of Technology, 14th April 1953. Creutz responds to a researcher's questionnaire entitled Enquete Mondiale (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? 4. What is your maxim of life?'. Creutz provides his answers in typescript immediately beneath, in full, '1. Difficult in that it required a considerable amount of physical and mental effort, but easy in that the emotional rewards for this effort were very great. 2. Financial support came entirely through work in teaching and research. 3. Probably best known for work on atomic chain reaction during the last war. 4. None', adding his signature and academic title below. A very minor, thin light band of discoloration to the right edge, otherwise VG
