Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

F. G. Tabb

Project StaffB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WAResearch & Development/300 Area
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Tabb worked at the 100-D Area and 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Related Profiles

George F. Eberle

Los Alamos, NM

P. S. Baker

Y-12 Plant

P. S. Baker worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Daniel Lasovick

Los Alamos, NM

Daniel Lasovick was a scientist at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. After the war, Lasovick turned down an offer to go to the University of California, Berkeley with the Atomic Energy Commission to enter private industry.

Joan E. Curran

University of California, Berkeley

Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.