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Voices of the Manhattan Project

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Browse our collection of oral histories with workers, families, service members, and more about their experiences in the Manhattan Project.

Tour the Sites of the Manhattan Project

Tour some of the key locations of the Manhattan Project with an audio guide.

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Albert Einstein receiving his his certificate of U.S. citizenship in 1940 from Judge Philip Forman. Photo courtesy Al Aumuller/Library of Congress.

Scientist Refugees and the Manhattan Project

The United Nations has designated January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. Countries around the world remember and honor the victims of the Nazi genocide.

Niels Bohr Announces the Discovery of Fission

On January 26, 1939, during the Fifth Washington Conference on Theoretical Physics at the George Washington University, Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr publicly announced the splitting of the uranium atom. The resulting “fission,” with its release of two hundred million electron volts of energy, heralded the beginning of the atomic age.

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Learn about some of the people who were a part of the Manhattan Project

Esther Floth

Project Staff, Washington, DC

Esther (Green) Floth worked as a secretary for General Leslie Groves during the Manhattan Project in Washington, DC.

Margaret Broderick

Chemist, Cambridge, MA

Margaret ("Chickie") Broderick was a chemist at MIT during the Manhattan Project.

Enrico Fermi

Physicist, Chicago, IL

Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics.

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