C. N. Gross

Construction ConsultantHanford, WA

B Reactor/100 Area

Manhattan Project Veteran

Listen to C. N. Gross’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

A native of the West Virginia mountains, C. N. Gross came to Hanford in January, 1944, from Wilmington, to be a reactor consultant. He and his wife decided to stay after 1946 when DuPont left and General Electric took over. They liked the atomic energy business as well as the Eastern Washington sunshine, and GE offered a good job at a time when Du Pont management people were stacked four deep on the East Coast.

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