Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

C. L. McCallum

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

C. L. McCallum worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Related Profiles

William Penney

Los Alamos, NM

William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.

William L. Laurence

Nagasaki Mission

Although the flow of information about the Manhattan Project was tightly controlled, New York Times reporter William L.

C. R. Dicks

Y-12 Plant

C. R. Dicks worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Fredrick “Fred” D. Johnson

Chicago, IL

Fredrick “Fred” D. Johnson was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.