Edgar Sengier

Chivalric Order Member

1879 – 1963

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Who was Edgar Sengier?

Edgar Sengier KBE was the director of the Belgian Union Minière du Haut Katanga mining company during World War II. Sengier is credited with giving the American government access to much of the uranium necessary for the Manhattan Project. He was the first non-American civilian to be awarded the Medal for Merit by the United States government. After World War II an American report revealed that Sengier not only sold uranium to America and Great Britain but also to Nazi Germany.

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Born
1879
Kortrijk
Education
  • Catholic University of Leuven
Died
Jul 26, 1963
Cannes

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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