Jackson Advocate

CHICAGO - (ANP) - America's leading Negro scientists, among them a young wizard of mathematics, helped construct the deadly atom bomb.

That information came last week from officials of the University of Chicago here where scientific research work on the atom bomb has been directed by Dr. A. H. Compton, the nation's foremost atom expert, for the past two years.

The result of the findings here is said to have made possible the construction of atom bomb plants at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and Richland Village, Wash.

Among the local scientists listed on the project were Edward A. Russell, Moddie Taylor, Harold Delancy, Benjamin Scott, J. Ernest Wilkins and Jasper Jefferies.

The youngest of the group probably was Dr. J. Ernest Wilkins, a wizard of mathematics, who astonished the world two years ago when he received his Ph. D. degree at 19. The government brought the youthful mathematician here from Tuskegee where he had been teaching mathematics to cadets, to devote full time to the atom bomb project.

Military security will not permit detailing the nature of work Negro scientists have done on the atom bomb here or at the plant in Oak Ridge, Tenn., University of Chicago officials said.