Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

E. V. Lofstrum

Project StaffOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Chapel on the Hill in Oak Ridge

E. V. Lofstrum worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.

Related Profiles

Robert H. James

Los Alamos, NM

Richard A. Bice

Los Alamos, NM

Richard A. Bice was an engineer. He joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944, rising to become the alternate Group Leader in X-Division.

Ralph Gates

Los Alamos, NM

Ralph Gates (1925-2018) was a chemical and electrical engineer who was recruited to the Manhattan Project as a part of the Special Engineer Detachment in early 1945.

Ray Smith

Trinity Site

Ray Smith is the historian at the Y-12 National Security Complex. His specific focus is the history of Oak Ridge, and he is intimately acquainted with the uranium enrichment processes undertaken at the Y-12, K-25, and S-50 plants during the Manhattan Project, and how the Fat Man and Little Boy bombs worked.