Question: The professor that Melba Newell Phillips completed her doctoral studies under participated in what World War II project?
Context: The Boeing B-29 Superfortress is a four-engine propeller-driven heavy bomber designed by Boeing, which was flown primarily by the United States during World War II and the Korean War.  It was one of the largest aircraft operational during World War II and featured state of the art technology.  Including design and production, it was the single most expensive weapons project undertaken by the United States in World War II, exceeding the cost of the Manhattan Project by between $1 and 1.7 billion.  Innovations introduced included a pressurized cabin, dual-wheeled, tricycle landing gear, and an analog computer-controlled fire-control system that directed four remote machine gun turrets that could be operated by a single gunner and a fire-control officer.  A manned tail gun installation was semi-remote.  The name "Superfortress" continued the pattern Boeing started with its well-known predecessor, the B-17 Flying Fortress.  Designed for the high-altitude strategic bomber role, the B-29 also excelled in low-altitude nighttime incendiary bombing missions.  One of the B-29's final roles during World War II was carrying out the atomic bomb attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Charlotte Burgis DeForest was born on February 23, 1879 in Osaka, Japan to missionary parents, Elizabeth Starr and John Hyde DeForest.  After attending boarding school in Germany and graduating from high school in Massachusetts, DeForest attended Smith College in 1897, obtaining her bachelor’s degree in 1901.  In 1903, DeForest volunteered for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and returned to Japan as a missionary.  From 1904-1907, DeForest traveled to various schools, including Kobe College, where she both taught English and completed a language study.  After teaching English, Bible and music studies there, DeForest became President of Kobe College in 1915.  In 1920, DeForest returned stateside to study at the University of Chicago and obtained an honorary L.H.D.  from Smith College.  From 1921 until the beginning of World War II in 1940 when she resigned her title as President of Kobe College, DeForest traveled back and forth from Japan and the United States.  During World War II, DeForest returned to the United States, where she volunteered at the Boston Immigration Station to help Japanese detainees, taught a nine-month course in Japanese at Pomona Collegeand eventually began working at the Manzanar Relocation Center in Manzanar, California.  After the end of World War II, DeForest returned once more to Kobe College as a teacher, until leaving Japan in 1950, when she received the Fourth Class of the Order of the Sacred Treasure.  By 1951, DeForest retired in Claremont, California until her death in 1973. Dimitrije "Mita" Đorđević (Serbian: Димитрије Ђорђевић ; 27 February 1922 – 5 March 2009) was a widely published historian of Modern European history, especially of the Balkans.  Đorđević was born in Belgrade to a prominent Serbian family.  When he was a law student, the Germans invaded Yugoslavia during World War II and he joined the resistance movement of Dragoljub Mihailovic.  Đorđević was captured by the Germans and was imprisoned, ultimately in Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp in Austria.  He survived the war, but was in turn imprisoned by the communist regime in post World War II Yugoslavia.  After he was pardoned and released, Đorđević was eventually allowed to commence study at the University of Belgrade, where he was a student of Vaso Čubrilović (one of the members of the Young Bosnia who conspired to assassinate Franz Ferdinand which led to the outbreak of World War I).  Đorđević was awarded his doctorate in 1962.  In 1970, Đorđević took up a position as a Full Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara, joining a strong faculty in European History including Joachim Remak, Leonard Marsak, and C. Warren Hollister.  He was elected a member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts in 1985.  A popular undergraduate lecturer and graduate mentor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1992 many of his former students contributed to his "Festschrift" entitled "Scholar, Patriot, Mentor: Historical Essays in Honor of Dimitrije Djordjevic".  In retirement, Đorđević published his autobiography, "Scars and Memory: Four Lives in One Lifetime", describing his World War II and post World War II experiences.  Professor Đorđević died in Santa Barbara on March 5, 2009. Florian Ștefănescu-Goangă (born Florian Ștefănescu; April 5, 1881 – March 26, 1958) was a Romanian psychologist.  The son of a peasant family from Curtea de Argeș, he attended the University of Bucharest, followed by doctoral studies in psychology at Leipzig University under Wilhelm Wundt.  Following World War I, he became a professor at the newly founded University of Cluj, emerging as a pioneer in experimental psychology in Romania over the ensuing decades.  He led the university between 1932 and 1940, also serving in government for a time.  An assassination attempt against him in 1938 precipitated the killing of Iron Guard leader Corneliu Zelea Codreanu.  After 1945, he initially worked with the new communist government, but his insistence on an apolitical teaching environment ultimately saw him held at Sighet prison from 1950 to 1955, and he died three years after his release. Melba Newell Phillips (February 1, 1907 – November 8, 2004) was an American physicist and science educator.  She completed her doctoral studies under J. Robert Oppenheimer and was also known for refusing to testify before a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on internal security, leading to her dismissal by Brooklyn College. Project "Cedar (also known as Operation "Cedar) was a World War II project to deliver short-range aircraft from the United States to the USSR via Abadan, Iran in the Persian Gulf. Clay Hall is a mid-twentieth century women’s dormitory located on the campus of Northern Oklahoma College in Enid, Oklahoma that has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 2012.  Architect Roy W. Shaw designed it for Phillips University in 1941.  The building was named after Robert Henry Clay, the husband of Sadie Clay, who had given a $25,000 donation to the project.  A cornerstone ceremony was held on October 9, 1941.  Mefford construction had completed the exterior by 1942, and the interior was completed in 1946, having been delayed by the onset of World War II.  The dormitory cost $175,000 to build, and the University held a dedication ceremony on October 11, 1946.  In 1951 and 1959, a north and a south wing were added to the building in order to accommodate an expanding student population.  These additional wings increased Clay Hall's residential space from 150 women to 258, and its building size to 59,000 square feet.  Phillips University's enrollment peaked in the 1970s, and the dormitory closed briefly in 1985, was reopened in 1986, and then permanently shut down in 1987.  Clay Hall is the oldest dormitory on the campus.  Its predecessor, Athenian Hall, was demolished in 1952, and a men's dormitory, Earl Butts Hall, was completed in 1955. Jagiellonian University is the oldest institution of higher education in Poland.  Established in 1364 by King Casimir III the Great, it is the second oldest university in Central-Eastern Europe, preceded by the University of Prague which was founded in 1348.  Called Studium Generale in its early years, it was modeled after the Universities of Bologna and Padua and was initially composed of three faculties: Liberal Arts, Medicine, and Law.  After its restoration in 1400, changes to the Academy's statute made it more resemble the Paris Sorbonne.  For over 600 years, many famous Poles and Europeans received their education within the walls of this University.  It was here that Nicolaus Copernicus studied and in 1578 Walenty Fontana delivered the first academic lecture based on Copernicus' heliocentric theory, an inconceivable notion to many scholars at the time.  In 1938, Karol Wojtyła began his studies in Polish philology at Jagiellonian University, interrupted by the outbreak of World War II, when occupying forces closed the University.  During the War, he actively participated in classes organized by the underground university.  Upon taking Holy Orders and returning from his doctoral studies in Rome, he received his post-doctoral degree from Jagiellonian University in 1953, continuing to work at the University until 1954.  In 1983, already as Pope, he was honored by University authorities with an Honorary Doctorate. Julius Robert Oppenheimer (April 22, 1904 – February 18, 1967) was an American theoretical physicist and professor of physics at the University of California, Berkeley.  Oppenheimer was the wartime head of the Los Alamos Laboratory and is among those who are credited with being the "father of the atomic bomb" for their role in the Manhattan Project, the World War II undertaking that developed the first nuclear weapons used in the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.  The first atomic bomb was detonated on July 16, 1945, in the Trinity test in New Mexico; Oppenheimer later remarked that it brought to mind words from the "Bhagavad Gita": "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." Polish Naval Academy (PNA) of the Heroes of Westerplatte is a naval university supervised by the Ministry of National Defence Republic of Poland, with the history, uninterrupted by World War II, dating back to 1922.  At present the PNA provides education for officer-cadets, commissioned officers and civilian students at first and second cycles of study (undergraduate and graduate), as well as doctoral studies.  It also offers opportunities for professional development at specialized courses and postgraduate programs.  In accordance with international agreements the PNA trains officers for naval forces of countries in Europe, North Africa, the Middle and Far East.  International exchange significantly contributes to the rise in qualifications of the PNA staff.  It also allows the students to attend lectures given by best specialists from leading scientific centers of the world.
Answer: the Manhattan Project