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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.

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