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Herbert Silverstone

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Herbert Silverstone was a research assistant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

After the war, Silverstone published a paper on the toxicology of uranium with fellow Manhattan Project veteran, Albert Tannenbaum.

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