Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Related Profiles

I. B. Whitney

X-10 Graphite Reactor

I. B. Whitney worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.

John Costa

Chicago, IL

John Costa worked at the shop in the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Ellsworth M. Risley

Los Alamos, NM

Ellsworth Risley was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

Dorothy Vanderford

Los Alamos, NM

Dorothy Vanderford (1973- ) is the granddaughter of J. Robert Oppenheimer. Although Vanderford never met her grandfather, she knows the family narrative well and her father, Peter Oppenheimer, was a child during the Oppenheimer trial.