Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

A. E. Ballard

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Y-12 beta racetrack.

A. E. Ballard worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Related Profiles

James A. Beatty

Tinian Island

James A. Beatty served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Charles A. Thomas

Dayton, OH

Charles Allen Thomas (1900-1982) was an American chemist and industrial leader. Thomas was recruited to join the Manhattan Project in 1942 by General Groves, who offered him a postion as a deputy to Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.

Lester E. Bowman

Tinian Island

Lester E. Bowman served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. 

Samuel T. Cohen

Los Alamos, NM

​Samuel Theodore Cohen was born on January 25, 1921. He was an American physicist and is known as the father of the neutron bomb.