Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Forrest H. Murray

Research AssociateChicago, IL

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Forrest H. Murray was a research associate in the Theoretical Group and a mathematician at the University of Chicago Met Lab. He was later transferred to Oak Ridge and signed a petition similar to the Szilard petition. In 1946, he and Alvin Weinberg co-authored the first paper to describe a pressurized-water nuclear reactor

Related Profiles

George Dykes

Oak Ridge, TN

George Dykes worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.

M. A. Murphy

Hanford, WA

Walter A. McKnight

Tinian Island

Walter A. McKnight served in the 1027th Air Material Squadron. 

F. C. Armistead

Oak Ridge, TN

F. C. Armistead worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.