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Head and shoulders portrait of a man with short, parted hair, wearing a suit jacket and tie, with a label reading E 16 below.

Otto Frisch (Wikipedia) – Los Alamos ID photo

22 Wort’s Causeway

History of 22 Wort's Causeway

The nuclear physicist Otto Frisch lived here from 1960 having moved from Kneighton Brae.

Otto worked with Niels Bohr, Rudolf Peierls and then in the USA on the Manhattan project. See Wikipedia for more extensive background.

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