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Marguerite N. Swift

Associate Physiologist, Health DivisionChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistWoman Scientist
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Marguerite Swift was an associate physiologist in the Health Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project. She was one of seventy signers of the Szilard Petition.

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