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Albert Tannenbaum

Research AssociateChicago, IL

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

Albert Tannenbaum was a research associate at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

After the war, Tannenbaum published a paper on the toxicology of uranium with fellow Manhattan Project veteran, Herbert Silverstone.

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