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Ruth Kerr Jakoby

ChildManhattan, NY

Columbia University
Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Ruth Kerr Jakoby Listen to Ruth Kerr Jakoby’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Ruth Kerr Jakoby is the daughter of Columbia University mineralogist Paul Francis Kerr, who took part in the Manhattan Project and later advised the Atomic Energy Commission. She remembers her father’s trips to Africa to find uranium for the Manhattan Project.

Ruth Kerr Jakoby’s Timeline
1929 Sep 2nd Born in Palo Alto, California.

19421945 Lived in New York, NY while her father worked on the Manhattan Project.

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