{"id":184008,"date":"2026-04-03T00:18:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184008\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:18:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:18:25","slug":"expert-to-discuss-iowa-states-role-in-manhattan-project-at-albert-lea-library-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/184008\/","title":{"rendered":"Expert to discuss Iowa State&#8217;s role in Manhattan Project at Albert Lea library | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ALBERT LEA, Minn. \u2014 The Albert Lea Public Library is hosting a Bring Your Own Lunch and Learn program about Iowa State University&#8217;s role in the Manhattan Project on April 9.<\/p>\n<p>Teresa Waldof, described as the world&#8217;s leading expert on the topic, will present &#8220;The Ames Project: Iowa State University and the Manhattan Project.&#8221; The Manhattan Project was a research and development program during World War II to produce the first nuclear weapons.<\/p>\n<p>Attendees will learn about Dr. Harley Wilhelm and the Ames Project division of the Manhattan Project. Wilhelm was instrumental in producing pure uranium required for developing the atomic bomb.<\/p>\n<p>Waldof will detail his work and discuss the book she wrote called &#8220;Wilhelm&#8217;s Way.&#8221; The program runs from noon to 1 p.m. in the Council Chambers on the top floor of City Hall, 221 E. Clark St.<\/p>\n<p>No registration or fee is required. More information about this event and library programs is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/alplonline.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/alplonline.org\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBERT LEA, Minn. \u2014 The Albert Lea Public Library is hosting a Bring Your Own Lunch and Learn&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":184009,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[74056,52387,74058,52388,19709,74055,75,84,83,9,24,63,74057],"class_list":["post-184008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-albert-lea","tag-ames","tag-harley-wilhelm","tag-iowa-state","tag-library","tag-mahattan-project","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-teresa-waldof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}