Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Joseph Katz

ScientistChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistSpouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Listen to Joseph Katz’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Joseph Katz was a chemist at Argonne National Laboratory at the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago. Katz was a part of a team that studied ways to make the diffusion of U-235 to U-238. In 1944 he married Sonia Weiner, a secretary in the Met Lab’s Chemistry Division.

Related Profiles

Joseph R. Lewis

Tinian Island

Joseph R. Lewis served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.

Albert Ghiorso

Chicago, IL

Albert Ghiorso (1915-2010) was an American nuclear scientist who co-discovered a world-record twelve elements on the periodic table.

Elaine K. Bernstein

Chicago, IL

Elaine K. Bernstein was an American biochemist. By the age of 21 Bernstein already has two masters’ degrees and had joined the University of Chicago’s Ph.

Richard L. Roberts

Los Alamos, NM