David Fox

MathematicianManhattan, NY

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran

Listen to David Fox’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

David Fox lives in Providence, Rhode Island. He received a Ph.D. in mathematics and has worked on the military and civilian applications of computing, war gaming, simulations, and artificial intelligence. His father, Dr. Marvin Fox, worked at Columbia University during the Manhattan Project.

David Fox’s Timeline

1935 Dec 26th Born in New York, NY.

1942 Moved to Brookline, MA with family after his father joined the Radiation Laboratory at MIT.

1944 Returned to New York when his father joined the Manhattan Project at Columbia University.

Related Profiles

Irwin P. Sharpe

Manhattan, NY

Irwin P. Sharpe was born in 1921 and died just short of his 100th birthday in 2021. He was recruited for the Manhattan Project by his employer, General Electric, after he graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in engineering in 1942.

Dunell Cohn

Oak Ridge, TN

Dunell Cohn was born in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1944. Cohn’s father, Waldo, was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project in Chicago in 1942 for his work on radioisotopes at Berkeley and Harvard during the 1930s.

Francis Oley

K-25 Plant

Francis Oley worked on the Manhattan Project for the Kellex Corporation. The son of Polish immigrants, Oley grew up in Brooklyn, New York.

Dorothy Ritter

Oak Ridge, TN

Dorothy Ritter is the daughter of Francis Oley, who worked on the Manhattan Project for the Kellex Corporation.