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

Dan Millard

Oak Ridge, TN

Dan Millard was a high school student in Oak Ridge, TN in 1943. The size of the school expanded from 65 to 1200 students due to the influx of workers for the Manhatan Project.

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.

Toni Oppenheimer

Princeton, NJ

Katherine “Toni” Oppenheimer (1944-1977) was an American translator, and the daughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer.

Vera Kistiakowsky

Tinian Island

Vera Kistiakowsky is an American physicist and the daughter of physical chemist George Kistiakowsky, who directed the Explosives Division at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and later served as President Dwight D.