. . "Nicholas Monroe Smith, Jr. (23 March 1914 - 7 August 2003), nuclear physicist and research consultant. Smith was a nuclear physicist, an expert in the field of nuclear and reactor physics, developer of operations research/computer modeling and computer applications consultant. He had ties to the Manhattan Project at Chicago and Oak Ridge, and worked with Samuel Allison and James Van Allan. Smith was a pioneer in the field of operations research."@en .