Antoine Marc Gaudin

He was also a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and during World War II developed there the ore-processing techniques needed to extract uranium from its low grade ores for the Manhattan Project.

[2] Gaudin was born in Smyrna, Ottoman Empire, where his French father was a railroad general manager and archaeologist, who relocated often.

Toward the end of World War I, Gaudin and his father Paul moved to the United States, where Antoine attended Columbia University and served, briefly in 1918, in the U. S. military.

From 1926 to 1929 he taught at the University of Utah, and served as its head of research working with the U. S. Bureau of Mines in exploring flotation reagents.

Bureau of Mines, and later Montana Tech, systematically investigated the function of reagents on the flotation behavior of pure minerals.

During World War II and subsequently, Gaudin led an MIT team extracting uranium from low-grade ore.

In secret research for the Manhattan Project, his team discovered how to use leaching and ion exchange to extract uranium from low grade ores for use in the development of the atomic bomb.

For his distinguished career in education, Gaudin was awarded several of the highest honors bestowed by the American Institute of Mining, Metallurgical, and Petroleum Engineers.