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Edward F. Wortmann

Purchasing AgentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Edward F. Wortmann

Edward F. Wortmann (1916-1998) was a purchasing agent at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Wortmann joined the lab in 1944. He lived in Los Alamos with his wife, Jane A. (Quinlan) Wortmann, whose mother Ruth Quinlan was a public school teacher in Los Alamos. After the war, Wortmann continued to work at the laboratory. He received his twenty-year pin in 1964. He died in Los Alamos in 1998. 

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