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Crawford Greenewalt, Jr.

ArchaeologistWilmington, DE

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Crawford Greenewalt, Jr. Listen to Crawford Greenewalt, Jr.’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Crawford Greenewalt, Jr., was an archeologist and the son of Crawford Greenewalt, a chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project and later become president of the DuPont Company. 

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