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Alfred Pfanstiehl

Junior PhysicistChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientist

Alfred Pfanstiehl was a junior physicist at the Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project. Pfanstiehl was a signatory of the Szilard Petition, an attempt to avert military use of the atomic bomb against Japan.

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