Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Edward F. Wortmann

Purchasing AgentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Edward F. Wortmann

Edward F. Wortmann (1916-1998) was a purchasing agent at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Wortmann joined the lab in 1944. He lived in Los Alamos with his wife, Jane A. (Quinlan) Wortmann, whose mother Ruth Quinlan was a public school teacher in Los Alamos. After the war, Wortmann continued to work at the laboratory. He received his twenty-year pin in 1964. He died in Los Alamos in 1998. 

Related Profiles

Fred Kihler

Oak Ridge, TN

John D. Strong

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the University of California.

Edith Warner

Los Alamos, NM

Edith Warner lived in a house next to the Otowi Suspension Bridge in New Mexico, where she fed and entertained many prominent members of the Manhattan Project.

A. H. Yohannan

Oak Ridge, TN

A. H. Yohannan worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.