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

David L. Hill

Chicago, IL

David L. Hill was an associate experimental physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Burris Cunningham

Chicago, IL

Burris Cunningham was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Stirling Auchincloss Colgate

Los Alamos, NM

Stirling Auchincloss Colgate was a student at the Los Alamos Ranch School when the site was chosen for use in the Manhattan Project, and he describes the visits of J.

Florence Bunch Worthington

Y-12 Plant

Worthington worked in the chemical department of the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project.