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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. 

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