Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Margaret Norman

ChildUniversity of California, Berkeley

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Margaret Norman Listen to Margaret Norman’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Margaret Lawrence Norman is the eldest daughter of Nobel Prize-winning physicist Ernest O. Lawrence. She was born in Oakland, CA, and attended Stanford University. 

Related Profiles

Hugh Bradner

Los Alamos, NM

Hugh “Brad” Bradner was a physicist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Harold Fidler

University of California, Berkeley

Harold Fidler was an Army major and a civil engineer for the Corps of Engineers. Fidler began working at the Radiation Laboratory at Berkeley with Ernest O.

Robert R. Wilson

Los Alamos, NM

Robert Rathbun Wilson (1914-2000) was an American physicist who also worked as a sculptor and architect.

Joseph W. Kennedy

Los Alamos, NM

Joseph W. Kennedy (1916-1957) was an American chemist.   In 1940 he co-discovered plutonium with Glenn Seaborg, Edwin McMillan, and Arthur Wahl.