Hymer Friedell, MD, PhD

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Hymer Friedell was the deputy medical director of the Manhattan Engineer District at Oak Ridge. He worked closely with Robert Stone and Stafford Warren in studying the effects of radiation on the human body. He also led the team that surveyed Hiroshima after Japan’s surrender.



EARLY LIFE
Hymer Louis Friedell was born on February 6, 1911 in St. Petersburg, Russia. His family moved to Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1915. Friedell earned his M.D. in 1936 and Ph.D. in 1939 at the University of Minnesota.

He worked as a National Cancer Institute Fellow at Memorial Hospital in New York and at the University of California Hospital in San Francisco. At San Francisco, he worked with Robert S. Stone, who also later joined the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge. Friedell also visited Berkeley, where he learned about the cyclotron and began to experiment with radiation treatment on leukemia patients.



MANHATTAN PROJECT INVOLVEMENT
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