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Dorothy Vanderford

GranddaughterLos Alamos, NM

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Dorothy Vanderford Listen to Dorothy Vanderford's Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dorothy Vanderford (1973- ) is the granddaughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although Vanderford never met her grandfather, she knows the family narrative well and her father, Peter Oppenheimer, was a child during the Oppenheimer trial.

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