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Army Captain Phillip Couzens Leahy headed a project which had international impact. Few people knew of this at the time, because it was part of the government's secret Manhattan Project which developed the atomic bomb. From March, 1943 to March, 1946 he directed the discovery, refining and procurement of uranium from the Colorado Plateau for atomic research. He became the first manager of the Atomic Energy Commission Compound from 1947 to 1949.
(T. McGill Photo, U.S. Department of Energy)