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Margaret H. Rand

Research Assistant, Health DivisionChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffWoman Scientist
A sketch of the Chicago Pile-1

Margaret Rand was a research assistant in the Health Division at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

She was one of seventy signers of the Szilard Petition.

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