Theodore “Ted” Shapiro
Theodore “Ted” Shapiro, age 91, died at Methodist Medical Center on Monday, March 17, 2014.
Ted was born in 1923 to Philip and Sadie Shapiro and grew up in Brookline, Mass. After graduation from Brookline High School he obtained a B.A. in Chemistry from Boston University in 1944.
Immediately after graduation, he accepted a job with Union Carbide Chemical Corporation (UCCC) as part of a recruiting effort for technical staff at Columbia University for the Manhattan Project. He was then selected as the only person from UCCC to go to DuPont in Wilmington, Del., and learn about the applications of fluorocarbons.
In April 1945, he was then asked to transfer to Oak Ridge, where, at the age of twenty-one, he participated in the start-up and production of the world’s first Gaseous Diffusion Plant for uranium enrichment. [Read more…]
