Dr. Ruth Patrick

Scientist

DuPont, MN

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Listen to Dr. Ruth Patrick’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Ruth Patrick was an American botanist and limnologist who studied the effects of pollution in water ways. She collaborated with Dr. Crawford Greenwalt and the Academy of Natural Sciences to determine the condition of the river where the DuPont Plant was due to be built so that they would be able to tell the effects of their operations upon the river.

Dr. Ruth Patrick and Jacques Cousteau

Dr. Ruth Patrick and Crawford Greenwalt

Dr. Ruth Patrick’s identification card

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