The Importance of Youth in the Manhattan Project

The average age of the scientists working on the Manhattan Project seems to be mid to late 20s. It was even an 18 year old physicist who was recruiting Ted Hall, who had it turned out to be a spy. Most of the discoveries necessary to make these bombs had already been made. The output from this huge collection of factories in Tennessee, one factory was a mile long and supervisors read around inside it on bicycles.