The bomb testing site may have been in New Mexico, but the Manhattan Project had a lot of ties to New Jersey.
but its top-secret program to build the atomic bomb drew its manpower from all over the country, and a lot of its brain power from New Jersey.
Urey was already living in Leonia in 1934 when he discovered “heavy water,” an isotope that could be used in a nuclear reactor and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Four years later, Fermi, while working in his native Italy, would be awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on artificial radioactivity.
Dr. Enrico Fermi, leader of the group of scientists who succeeded in initiating the first man-made nuclear chain reaction is picture in an undated photo. In her memoir, “Atoms in the Family,” published in 1954, Laura Fermi writes of the cold February day in 1939 when she and her husband got off the bus in Leonia with their two children, Nella and Guilio.
Urey and some of his Columbia colleagues lived as public intellectuals and were quite prominent in borough affairs. Urey served two terms on the Leonia school board while working on the Manhattan Project, and he frequently made it on the Society pages of the local newspaper, the Bergen Record. Another Manhattan Project scientist, Henry A. Boorse, served as chairman the Leonia Public Library and as a judge for the high school’s annual science contests.
In this undated file photo provided by the Energy Department, the sprawling gaseous diffusion plant, where uranium was enriched for the World War II-era Manhattan Project is seen in Oak Ridge, Tenn. The Oak Ridge site is part of the Manhattan Project National Park, which includes sites in Los Alamos, N.M., and Hanford, Wash.
Cohn said her mother, Marjorie Oliver Allen Benedict, was a farm girl who’d been raised in upstate New York. She was also a brilliant mathematician, who met her father when they were both doing doctoral work at MIT.
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