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Henry Frisch

PhysicistLos Alamos, NM

Family Member of Manhattan Project VeteranScientist
Henry Frisch Listen to Henry Frisch’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Henry Frisch is a professor of physics at the University of Chicago. His father, David Frisch, worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Henry was born at Los Alamos in 1944.

Henry Frisch’s Timeline
1944 Born in Los Alamos, NM.

1971 Received his PhD in physics from the University of California-Berkeley.

Henry Frisch, James Nolan, and Andrew Hanson at the Atomic Heritage Foundation’s Manhattan Project 70th anniversary events in June 2015 

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