What was William Sterling Parson's nickname?
Bob
Sterling
Skipper
Deak
Answer
William Sterling Parsons (October 3, 1901 – January 17, 1952), nicknamed Deak, was a U.S. Navy officer and one of the five members of the Manhattan Project's "Trinity" team who conducted the first atomic bomb test in the desert near Alamogordo, New Mexico.
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