World War II Honoree
Civilian on the Home Front
Harry K. Daghlian
Hometown
New London, Connecticut
Honored By
Ms. Helen M. Daghlian
Relationship
Sister
Physicist who worked at Los Alamos, New Mexico to help develop the Atomic bomb and was the first one killed in a radiation accident in the laboratory, September 1945. Member of the Manhattan Project under J. Robert Oppenheimer and General Groves.