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About Wallace L. Minto
- Wallace L.
- Minto (August 6, 1921, in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States – September 3, 1983) had a passion for science at a very young age.
- For instance, at age 13, he and his father, Wallace Milton Minto, stock piled more than 50 tons of uranium rich ore in Sparta, NJ.
- He was also the first to split the uranium atom while still a teenager.
- This nearly created an atomic explosion in his family home.
- At age 16, Wallace synthesized radium and invented what is now known as "Scotchlite".
- He had a copyright on his own periodic chart which renamed all the elements. When only 16, he was a student at Columbia College and was later instrumental in convincing Albert Einstein to write a letter to President Franklin D.
- Roosevelt (dated August 2, 1939) stressing the need for the United States to expand its experimentation with Atomic Energy, leading to the Manhattan Project.
- Consequently, Minto sold his uranium rich ore to the U.S.
- Government for use in the Manhattan Project.On June 26, 1944, Minto was enlisted by Dr.
- Andrew H.
- Dowdy, director of the Manhattan Department of the University of Rochester, to take charge of the Special Problems Division of the Manhattan Project.
- Minto reported directly to General Leslie Groves and reportedly threw Groves out of his lab for tampering with his beakers. Another significant accomplishment by Minto was a non-polluting, organic Rankine Cycle Engine.
- The engine was licensed to Nissan Motor Company in 1972.
- Minto also discovered the method by which fish communicate which is referenced in the July 1965 issue of Popular Mechanics.
- Hydronics, a low form of radiation, was also discovered by Minto.
- Furthermore, he invented the Jemeter, an electronic refractometer, utilized to distinguish gem stones.
- Finally, Minto invented the Minto Wheel, as a gift to the Third World countries.
- Its purpose was to replace the mundane task of oxen and mules walking around in circles in order to grind corn or wheat and for the operation of a low technology irrigation system. Wallace Minto died on September 3, 1983, of myelofibrosis after a long battle.
- His disease was a direct result of his work on the Manhattan Project.
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