INFORMATION FROM FIND-A-GRAVE WEBSITE:

Richard M “Dick” Adams
BIRTH          1 Nov 1916, Gary, Lake County, Indiana, USA
DEATH          10 Oct 2010 (aged 93), Laramie, Albany County, Wyoming, USA
BURIAL         Cremated, Location of ashes is unknown
MEMORIAL ID    133060884

Richard M. Adams, a scientist on the atomic bomb project, died in Laramie, Wyo., Oct. 10, 2010. He was 93. Richard "Dick" Adams, was born Nov. 1, 1916 in Gary IN, to Freda and Melvern Adams. He married Marjorie Ann Albright in Chicago in 1944, where they lived until 1993. Adams received his bachelor's and master's degrees from the University of Chicago and a PhD from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He authored 16 publications. Adams worked with such scientists as Enrico Fermi on the first nuclear reactor and the project to develop the first atomic bomb. He worked for Argonne National Laboratory until 1984, rising to become an assistant director. Richard Adams is survived by his children, Tori Adams of Rawlins, and Richard Merritt Adams and his wife, Andi Berry, of Laramie. Cremation has taken place and a private memorial is planned in Wyoming.

Published in Chicago Tribune on Oct. 15, 2010

This information was obtained from: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/133060884/richard-m-adams. The picture above was obtained from the 1929 HHS Aurora yearbook, made available by the Lake County Public Library, at: https://archive.org/details/HOHS1929Images/.