Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

E. B. Montgomery

Project StaffHanford, WA

Chicago, IL
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

E.B.Montgomery (Edward Benjamin Montgomery) was a nuclear physicist who later worked as a computer scientist. He was employed by DuPont during World War II. He worked under Enrico Fermi in Chicago, machining the graphite blocks used to assemble the Chicago Pile-1. He was later transferred to Hanford.

Montgomery went on to become dean of the Syracuse University School of Information Sciences, and later a professor of biomedical engineering at University of Texas Health Science Center at Dallas.

Related Profiles

George A. Koester

Tinian Island

George A. Koester served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.

Hyman Goldsmith

Chicago, IL

Hyman H. Goldsmith (1907-1949) was an American physicist. In 1943, Goldsmith became coordinator of information for the Metallurgical Lab in Chicago.

John T. Linton

Tinian Island

John T. Linton served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.

R. C. Armstrong

Hanford, WA