Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Bennie Tapia

Project StaffLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Bennie Tapia was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

James Chadwick

Los Alamos, NM

Sir James Chadwick (1891-1974) was an English physicist and winner of the 1935 Nobel Prize in Physics.

W. M. Hopkins

Japan

W. M. Hopkins worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

George Allen

Tinian Island

George Allen served in the US Armed Forces and flew B-29s in the air force during World War Two. He did not see action, but was in Alamogordo, New Mexico, when the Trinity Test was conducted and witnessed the explosion from afar.

Millard F. Sloan

Oak Ridge, TN

Millard Sloan was a chemical operator at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from 19445 to 1947. Sloan was a Tennessee native who served in India with the 12th Air Cargo Re-supply Squadron of the US Army before working at Oak Ridge.