Lloyd Quarterman, born May 31, 1918 in Philadelphia, earned his Bachelor's Degree in chemistry from St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, North Carolina. He was hired as chemist on the Manhattan Project during WWII with Albert Einstein and Enrico Fermi. His chief responsibility was developing a system for purifying large quantities of hydrogen fluoride. HF would then be used to separate Uranium-235 for atomic bombs. The U-235 accumulated was used to make Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.
He worked at Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago for 30 years.
He passed away in July 1982.
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