Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Ercole E. Motta

Research AssistantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Ercole E. Motta was a research assistant at the University of Chicago Met Lab. He studied ways to determine the boron content of uranium oxide.

Related Profiles

Blanche J. Lawrence

Chicago, IL

Blanche J. Lawrence was an African-American research assistant in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Hall Smith, Jr.

Y-12 Plant

Hall Smith, Jr. worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

William G. Long, Jr.

Tinian Island

William G. Long, Jr. served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.

Leo C. Lintner

Hanford, WA