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John H. Manley, 82; Helped Build A-Bomb AP New York Times; June 15, 1990 John H. Manley, who helped build the first atomic bomb, died of heart disease on Monday. He was 82 years old and lived in Los Alamos.

John H. Manley, who helped build the first atomic bomb, died of heart disease on Monday. He was 82 years old and lived in Los Alamos.

From 1937 to 1942 Mr. Manley was a lecturer at Columbia University and a professor at the University of Illinois. He was a research associate in the metallurgical laboratory at the University of Chicago in 1942 when he met Enrico Fermi, the atomic scientist.

He moved to Los Alamos and helped administer the Manhattan Project, which constructed the bomb, with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1943. He was the associate director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1946 to 1951 and from 1951 to 1957 headed the physics department at the University of Washington in Seattle.

He returned to Los Alamos National Laboratory as a research adviser from 1957 to 1972, when he retired. In 1959 he was named a senior technical adviser to the International Atomic Energy Agency.

He is survived by his wife, Kathleen, and two daughters, Kim of Los Alamos and Kathleen of Greeley, Colo.