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

Lew Kowarski

France

Lew Kowarski was a Russian-born French physicist. He worked as part of the team that discovered that neutrons were emitted in the fission of uranium-235 in the 1930s, setting the groundwork for the use of nuclear chain reactions in the design of the atomic bomb.

J. E. Pearman

Y-12 Plant

J. E. Pearman worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

M. J. McDaniel

X-10 Graphite Reactor

M. J. McDaniel worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

John E. Dhonau

Tinian Island

John E. Dhonau served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.