Elda Emma Anderson, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Elda Emma Anderson

American physicist

Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1899

Place of Birth: Green Lake, Wisconsin, United States

Date of Death: 17-Apr-1961

Profession: physicist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Elda Emma Anderson (October 5, 1899 – April 17, 1961) was an American physicist and health researcher.
During World War II, she worked on the Manhattan Project at Princeton University and the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she prepared the first sample of pure uranium-235 at the laboratory.
A graduate of the University of Wisconsin, she became professor of physics at Milwaukee-Downer College in 1929.
After the war, she became interested in health physics.
She worked in the Health Physics Division of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and established the professional certification agency known as the American Board of Health Physics.