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David H. Frisch was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, working with the Van de Graaff long tank accelerator to measure neutron cross sections. He later became active in the nuclear disarmament movement. He was a professor at physics at MIT for more than 40 years. 

David’s son, Henry Frisch, was born at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. Henry is a physicist at the University of Chicago. An interview with Henry about his memories of Los Alamos and his father’s work on the Manhattan Project can be found here.

 

David H. Frisch’s Timeline
1918 Mar 12th Born in New York.

1940 Graduated from Princeton University.

19401942 Worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

19431945 Worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.

1947 Received his PhD in physics from MIT.

19471988 Worked as professor of physics at MIT.

1991 May 23rd Died in Cambridge, MA.

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