Ralph Eugene Lapp (August 24, 1917 – September 7, 2004) was an American physicist who participated in the Manhattan Project.
[2] After completing his graduate studies at the university he joined the Manhattan Project and became the assistant director of the metallurgical laboratory.
When the research and development board was formed, Doctor Lapp became executive director of its committee on atomic energy.
In his book The New Priesthood: The Scientific Elite and the Uses of Power, Lapp describes the increase in funding for science and the growing influence of scientists in American politics after the invention of the atomic bomb.
[3] In December 1971, he wrote a syndicated newspaper article titled "Problems in nuclear plumbing", discussing the threat of the "China Syndrome".