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Edgar Sengier : ウィキペディア英語版 | Edgar Sengier
Edgar Sengier KBE (9 October 1879 – 26 July 1963) was a Belgian businessman and director of the ''Union Minière du Haut Katanga'' (UMHK) 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 extracted from the company's mines in the Belgian Congo. He was the first non-American civilian to be awarded the Medal for Merit by the United States government. ==The ''Union Minière du Haut Katanga''== Born in Kortrijk in Belgium, Sengier graduated in 1903 as a mining engineer from the University of Leuven and joined the ''Union Minière du Haut Katanga'' (UMHK) as it was beginning to exploit mines in the province of Katanga in the Belgian Congo. The UMHK was owned jointly by the ''Société Générale de Belgique'', a Belgian monopolist investment company, and the government of the Belgian Congo. The ''Sociétés activity was, among other things, to mine copper deposits in Katanga.
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