Margaret Norman

ChildUniversity of California, Berkeley

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran

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

William Dennes

Los Alamos, NM

William Dennes (1898-1982) was an American philosopher. Dennes arrived as a philosophy professor at the University of California, Berkeley in 1923.

Hymer Friedell was the deputy medical director of the Manhattan Engineer District at Oak Ridge. He worked closely with Robert Stone and Stafford Warren in studying the effects of radiation on the human body.

Duane Sewell

Tinian Island

Duane Sewell began working with the Manhattan Project in 1941. He was one of the first people to arrive at Oak Ridge and experienced first-hand some of the difficulties there with cyclotrons and isotope separation.

Philip Abelson

S-50 Plant

Philip Abelson (1913-2004) was an American physicist whose discoveries helped obtain the necessary uranium to build an atomic bomb.