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

Eric Burhop

University of California, Berkeley

Eric Burhop (1911-1980) was an Australian physicist and mathematician. Burhop’s career in physics began at the University of Melbourne.

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.

Judith Lynn Parkhurst

Oak Ridge, TN

Judith Lynn Parkhurst was born on March 18, 1934, in Shelbyville, Indiana. Judith had two brothers, James born in 1941, and David born at Oak Ridge in 1947.

Albert Ghiorso

Chicago, IL

Albert Ghiorso (1915-2010) was an American nuclear scientist who co-discovered a world-record twelve elements on the periodic table.