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Joseph Levinger

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientist

Joseph Levinger was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project. He was a member of the cyclotron group at the Met Lab along with Arthur Snell, Hugh Bradner, John E. Brolley, Morton Camac, B.D. Kern, E.P. Meiners, A.C Mitchell, V. Alexander Nedzel, Wilfred Rall, M.B. Sampson, and Roger Wilkinson. Levinger focused on studies of delayed neutrons.

He went on to become a physics professor at Cornell University, Louisiana State University, and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

For more about Dr. Levinger, please see his obituary.

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