Darragh Nagle

PhysicistChicago, IL

Columbia UniversityLos Alamos, NMTrinity Site

Manhattan Project VeteranScientistTrinity Test Eyewitness

Listen to Darragh Nagle’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Darragh Nagle graduated from Columbia University and worked with Enrico Fermi and Herbert Anderson at the Chicago Pile during the early years of the Manhattan Project. Nagle then transferred to Los Alamos, where he joined the Omega Team and conducted criticality experiments. Nagle was also responsible for collecting soil samples after the atomic bomb test at the Trinity Site.

Related Profiles

R. R. Brown

Oak Ridge, TN

Brown worked in the United States Engineer District Office.

E. P. Kelleher

Oak Ridge, TN

Kelleher worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

H. F. Godsey

Y-12 Plant

H. F. Godsey worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Ben Haug

Y-12 Plant

Ben Haug worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.