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.

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