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List of Nobel laureates who worked on the Manhattan Project

Since 1901, the Nobel Prize has been awarded to a total of 965 individuals and 27 organizations as of 2023. It was awarded to 32 scientists who also worked on the Manhattan Project. Of these, 24 won the Prize in Physics, five won the Prize in Chemistry, one won the Peace Prize, and two won the Prize in Physiology or Medicine.

Awarded Nobel Prize before working on the Manhattan Project

Awarded Nobel Prize during the Manhattan Project

Awarded Nobel Prize after working on the Manhattan Project

Notes

References Compton, Arthur (1956). Atomic Quest. New York: Oxford University Press. OCLC 173307. Hewlett, Richard G.; Anderson, Oscar E. (1962). The New World, 1939–1946 (PDF). University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press. OCLC 637004643. Retrieved March 26, 2013. Hiltzik, Michael (2015). Big Science: Ernest Lawrence and the Invention that Launched the Military-Industrial Complex. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4516-7575-7. OCLC 900665460. Hoddeson, Lillian; Henriksen, Paul W.; Meade, Roger A.; Westfall, Catherine L. (1993). Critical Assembly: A Technical History of Los Alamos During the Oppenheimer Years, 1943–1945. New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-44132-3. OCLC 26764320. Howes, Ruth H.; Herzenberg, Caroline L. (1999). Their Day in the Sun: Women of the Manhattan Project. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 978-0-585-38881-6. OCLC 49569088. Pais, Abraham (1991). Niels Bohr's Times, In Physics, Philosophy and Polity. Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-852049-8.

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