David Dow was a lawyer. He served as administrative assistant to J. Robert Oppenheimer. He was in charge of non-technical activities at Los Alamos and the Compagna Hill monitoring site, 20 miles from the Trinity test.
David Dow
LawyerLos Alamos, NM
Trinity Site
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffTrinity Test Eyewitness
David Dow's Timeline
1915 Aug 24th Born in Ann Arbor, MI.
1936 Received JD from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
19431945 Worked at Los Alamos on the Manhattan Project as J. Robert Oppenheimer's administrative assistant.
1946 Joined the faculty at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
1960 Became Dean of the College of Law at the University of Nebraska.