Manfred Lindner

1919 - 2023

A native of Chicago, Manny received his B.S. degree from Northwestern University in 1940. During WW II he was a chemist involved in the isolation of the hitherto-unknown element plutonium, at the Manhattan project sites at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago, the Clinton Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and the Hanford plant at Richland, Washington. At the conclusion of the war, he returned to do graduate studies in nuclear chemistry in the College of Chemistry at the University of California in Berkeley, where he received his Ph.D. in 1948. After teaching chemistry for three years at the State College of Washington, he and his wife Bernice returned to California, making their home permanently in Danville in 1951. For the remainder of his career he was a nuclear chemist at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory, from which he retired in 1988.In the early 1970's he became a volunteer citizen activist for more parklands in Contra Costa County, and was involved in the early establishment of the Las Trampas Regional Wilderness and the Morgan Territory Regional Preserve.Survivors include his sons Mark (Netty), Bruce, and grandchildren, Annika (David Young), Daniel (Nicole Garcia), and Lisa. No services are planned, but suggestions for possible memorial contributions include the College of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, Save Mount Diablo, The Lindsey Wildlife Museum, or the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C.Correspondence:Lindner Family, 29805 NE 136th CT, Battle Ground, WA 98604.