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Meta Newson

WifeHanford, WA

Spouse to Manhattan Project Worker
Hanford Listen to Meta Newson’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Meta Newson, a homemaker at Hanford during WWII, was married to the late Henry W Newson, a Manhattan Project physicist at Chicago, Oak Ridge, Hanford and Los Alamos, and later a professor at Duke University. She and her husband moved to Hanford after working in Berkeley, California.
 

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