Edward L. Brady was a chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project at Chicago and Oak Ridge.
Brady received a B.A. and M.A. in chemistry from UCLA before World War II. In 1942, he joined the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab. He also worked at Oak Ridge during the war as a member of the group that designed and operated the first large-scale hot laboratory facilities.
After the war, he received his Ph.D. from MIT. He worked for several corporations and also served as the US Atomic Energy Commission’s Representative to the United Kingdom. In 1963, Brady was recruited by the National Bureau of Standards (NBS). In 1978, he became NBS’s Associate Director of International Affairs.