Richard H. Wiswall Jr. *41

Richard H. Wiswall Jr., a Manhattan Project researcher in the early 1940s, died Oct. 9, 2004, of natural causes in his Brookhaven, N.Y., home. He was 88.

A graduate of Harvard, Richard earned both master's and doctorate degrees in chemistry at Princeton. During World War II he was assigned to Columbia University as part of the government program to develop an atomic bomb. After the war he joined Brookhaven National Laboratory, where he worked on developing hydrogen as an ecologically safe fuel.

Richard leaves behind his wife, Ann; four sons; and eight grandchildren.