Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

David Fox

MathematicianManhattan, NY

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
David Fox 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

Janice Witt Purkey

Oak Ridge, TN

Janice Witt Purkey was the daughter of William Augustus Witt, an Army soldier stationed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

Paul Francis Kerr

Manhattan, NY

Paul Francis Kerr was an American mineralogist. A professor at Columbia University, he was recruited to locate supplies of uranium for the Manhattan Project.

Jo-Ellen Iacovino

Oak Ridge, TN

After her brother was drafted, Jo-Ellen Iacovino and her family moved to Happy Valley, Tennessee to support the war effort.

Crawford Greenewalt, Jr.

Wilmington, DE

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.