John Blanchard Miles Jr. ’24

JOHNNIE MILES DIED Aug. 28, 1990. After graduating with our Class, he received a Ph.D. in physics from die Graduate School in 1929. Early In his career he was a member of the team of scientists with Du Pont that developed nylon and was "Du Pont's man" both at the Univ. of Chicago and In Hanford, Wash. Later he was associated with Monsanto in Decatur, Ala. and at the Research Triangle at Chapel Hill. In WWII he was with the Manhattan Project, which developed the atom bomb. After retiring from Monsanto he taught physics at Old Dominion Univ. until 1972, when he moved to Lynchburg.

He is survived by his wife, Elizabeth; his son, Burnley Lankford Miles; and his daughter, Elizabeth Roadcap.

To them we express our sympathy.

The Class of 1924