Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Harris Small

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment

Related Profiles

Henry P. Blake

Tinian Island

Henry P. Blake served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron. 

John H. Gillette

X-10 Graphite Reactor

John H. Gillette (1916-2014) was an American chemist. A lifelong native of upstate New York, Gillette arrived in Oak Ridge in 1943 after several years of working for DuPont.

Herbert E. Kubitschek

Chicago, IL

Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.

Garland E. Frye

Los Alamos, NM