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Edith King

Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Edith King's Los Alamos ID badge photo

Edith King worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. She and her husband, L. D. P. King, were good friends of Edith Warner and frequented Warner’s tea room. 

Her son Nick later worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory.

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