Arnold Anderson was a Six Nations Tuscarora tribal member who worked as a chemical engineer on the

Manhattan Project The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada. From 1942 to 1946, the project w ...

to help the United States develop the first

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s. He was president and founding member of the

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which was founded in 1977 with six other American Indian scientists.

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