Samuel Podgor

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranProject Worker/StaffSpecial Engineer Detachment

Samuel Podgor was born to Russian-migrants in New York City. He served in the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos, NM where he worked in the Theoretical Division under Klaus Fuchs.

Samuel Podgor’s Timeline

1912 Jul 9th Born in New York City.

1944 Sep1946 Jan Worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

Podgor Personal File

Samuel Podgor

Letter from Oppenheimer to Podgor acknowledging his work on the Manhattan Project

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