 |
The Manhattan Project Heritage Preservation Association, Inc. "Preserving, Exhibiting, Interpreting and Teaching the History of the Manhattan Project" |
|
| Home | Site Map | Contact Us | Feedback | Mission |
Manhattan Project
Hall of Fame Directory
Nuclear Science - The Manhattan Project
|
"Taken as a story of human achievement, and human blindness, the discoveries in the sciences are among the great epics" J. Robert Oppenheimer |
|
Web Masters Note.... As you are no doubt aware, the Manhattan Project was mammoth in scope. The below 86 listed individuals all played a major role, some in an advisory capacity. Also, throughout the Project's duration, many moved from one location to another, and, as a result, had several different roles. If we have omitted someone, please advise us. If a "hyperlink" is available, then we have an associated biography and quite possibly, a photo. In addition, those names hi-lighted in Orange were awarded a Nobel Prize at some time during their illustrious careers. |
Manhattan Project Major Participants
|
Name |
Position (if known) |
Primary Location |
| Abelson, Philip H. | Pioneered Liquid Thermal Diff. | Philadelphia Navy Yard |
| Agnew, Harold | Group Leader | Tinian Scientific Team |
| Alvarez, Luis | Group Leader - Detonation | Los Alamos, NM |
| Allison, Samuel K. | Built CP-1 Pile | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Anderson, Herbert L. | Asst. to E. Fermi; | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Bacher, Robert | Weapons & Experimental Physics | Los Alamos, NM |
| Bainbridge, Kenneth | "Trinity" Test Director | Los Alamos, NM |
| Beams, Jesse W. | Pioneered Centrifuge Method | University of Virginia |
| Bethe, Hans | Chief - Theoretical Division | Los Alamos, NM |
| Bohr, Aage Niels | Asst. to his father; Niels Bohr | Los Alamos, NM |
| Bohr, Niels | Consultant to the Project | Los Alamos, NM |
| Bradbury, Norris | Interim Lab Director | Los Alamos, NM |
| Briggs, Lyman J. | Head; Uranium Committee | Nat'l Bureau of Standards |
| Bush, Vannevar | Head; N.D.R.C. | Carnegie Foundation |
| Chadwick, Sir James | Chief - British Mission | Los Alamos, NM |
| Chamberlain, Owen | Asst. to Emilio Segre | Los Alamos, NM |
| Compton, Arthur H. | Director - Met Lab | University of Chicago |
| Compton, Karl T. | Head; Interim Committee | M. I. T. |
| Conant, James B. | Head; N.D.R.C. | Harvard University |
| Critchfield, Charles | Group Leader - Ordnance | Los Alamos, NM |
| Dallas, Nick | Made 1st Button of Plutonium | Los Alamos, NM |
| DeSilva, Peer Maj. | Chief of Security | Los Alamos, NM |
| Dunning, J. R. | Director of Lab | Columbia University |
| Einstein, Albert | Consultant to the Project | Los Alamos, NM |
| Farrell, Thomas Brig. Gen. | Asst. to Maj. Gen. Groves | Los Alamos, NM |
| Fermi, Enrico | Group Leader - Theoretical | Los Alamos, NM |
| Feynman, Richard | Group Leader - Theoretical | Los Alamos, NM |
| Frank, James | Director - Chemistry Group | Chicago Met Lab |
| Frisch, Otto | British Mission | Los Alamos, NM |
| Goudsmit, Samuel | Scientific Head of Alsos Mission | Europe |
| Greenwalt, Crawford | Coordinated DuPont & Met Lab | DuPont |
| Groves, Leslie | CO - Manhattan Engineer District | Washington, DC |
| Jette, Eric | Plutonium Metallurgy | Los Alamos, NM |
| Kennedy, Joseph | Chemistry & Metallurgy | Los Alamos, NM |
| King, L. D. P. | ||
| Kistiakowsky, George | Director - Implosion Program | Los Alamos, NM |
| Kolodney, Morris | Manager - DP Site | Los Alamos, NM |
| Lansdale, John Col. | Security Aide to Gen. Groves | Washington, DC |
| Lawrence, Ernest O. | Director - Berkeley Lab | U. C. - Berkeley |
| Lewis, Gilbert N. | Head; Chemistry Dept. | U. C. - Berkeley |
| Lewis, Warren K. | Head; Lewis Review Committee | Washington, DC |
| Loomis, Alfred L. | Research Advisory Committee | Harvard University |
| Magel, Ted | Made 1st Button of Plutonium | Los Alamos, NM |
| Manley, John H. | Asst. to J. R. Oppenheimer | U. C. - Berkeley |
| McKibbin, Dorothy | Ran Reception Office | Santa Fe, NM |
| McMillan, Edwin | Group Leader - | Los Alamos, NM |
| Morrison, Philip | Head - Fat Man Pit Team | Tinian Island |
| Murphree, Eger V. | Pilot-Plant Engineering Studies | Standard Oil |
| Neddermeyer, Seth | Implosion Research | Los Alamos, NM |
| Neumann, John von | Theoretical Division | Los Alamos, NM |
| Nichols, Kenneth D., Col. | C. O. - Manhattan Engineer Dist. | Oak Ridge |
| Nier, Alfred O. | Pioneered Electro-Magnetic Meth. | University of Minnesota |
| Oliphant, Mark | British Mission | Los Alamos, NM |
| Oppenheimer, Frank | Asst. to Robert Oppenheimer | Los Alamos, NM |
| Oppenheimer, J. Robert | Scientific Director - Project "Y" | Los Alamos, NM |
| Parsons, William Capt. | Ordnance Director | Los Alamos, NM |
| Pash, Boris Col. | Military Chief - Alsos Mission | Europe |
| Pegram, George B. | Uranium Committee | Columbia University |
| Peierls, Rudolf | British Mission | Los Alamos, NM |
| Penney, William G. | British Mission | Observer - The Big Stink |
| Perlman, Isidore (Iz) | Chemistry Division | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Rabi, Isidore I. | Consultant to the Project | Los Alamos, NM |
| Rainwater, Leo J. | Asst. to J. R. Dunning | Columbia University |
| Ramsey, Norman | Deputy Director - Project "Alberta" | Los Alamos, NM |
| Schreiber, Raemer S. | Group Leader - Scientific Team | Tinian Island |
| Schwinger, Julian | Asst. to J. R. Oppenheimer | U. C. - Berkeley |
| Seaborg, Glenn | Chief - Plutonium Separation | Los Alamos, NM |
| Segre, Emilio | Group Leader - Radioactivity | Los Alamos, NM |
| Serber, Robert | Group Leader - Theoretical | Los Alamos, NM |
| Smith, Cyril | Group Leader - Metallurgy | Los Alamos, NM |
| Szilard, Leo | Group Leader - Met Lab | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Stimson, Henry | Secretary of War | Washington, DC |
| Teller, Edward | Thermonuclear Research | Los Alamos, NM |
| Tibbetts, Paul Col. | CO - 509th Composite Group | Wendover, UT |
| Tuck, James | British Mission - Implosion | Los Alamos, NM |
| Ulam, Stanislau | Hydrodynamics of Implosion | Los Alamos, NM |
| Urey, Harold C. | Director - War Research | Columbia University |
| Wahl, Arthur C. | Chemistry Group | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Warner, Roger S. Jr. | Chief - Fat Man Assembly Team | Tinian Island |
| Weinberg, Alvin | Theoretical Physics under Wigner | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Weisskopf, Victor | Theoretical Division | Los Alamos, NM |
| Wheeler, John A. | Consultant to the Project | Princeton University |
| Wigner, Eugene | Group Leader - Met Lab | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Williams, John | Deputy Test Director | Los Alamos, NM |
| Wilson, Robert | Cyclotron Group | Los Alamos, NM |
| Woods, Leona (Marshall, Libby) | Asst. to E. Fermi | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
| Zinn, Walter H. | Asst. to E. Fermi | Univ. of Chicago (Met Lab) |
IF
YOU SEE A YELLOW "ENTER" BUTTON ABOVE, PLEASE DO NOT "CLICK" ON IT.
THIS WILL TAKE YOU TO A GAMBLING SITE WHICH WAS ADDED TO OUR WEB SITE
WITHOUT OUR PERMISSION!
This web site is growing by 150 pages per month - Click
