Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Eric Pierce

ORNL ScientistOak Ridge, TN

African-AmericanScientist
Listen to Eric Pierce’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Eric Pierce is a senior scientist and leader of the Earth Sciences Group in the Environmental Sciences Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Born in New Orleans, Pierce has a Ph.D in low-temperature geochemistry from Tulane University. Pierce and his team at Oak Ridge work on environmental issues that result from nuclear energy production, such as how contaminants and energy production byproducts such as mercury move through the environment.

Related Profiles

E. W. McConnell

Y-12 Plant

E. W. McConnell worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Edward Purcell

Cambridge, MA

Edward Purcell (1912-1997) was an American physicist who won the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance, the eventual basis for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI).

John J. Fischer

Oak Ridge, TN

Fischer worked in the United States Engineer District Office.

John J. Moran

Oak Ridge, TN

Major John J. Moran was assigned to the Manhattan Engineer District in Oak Ridge, TN from June 6, 1942 to January 12, 1946.