Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Frederick Trapnell

ConsultantChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Frederick Trapnell was a consultant at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Jane Heydorn

Los Alamos, NM

Jane Heydorn was a Manhattan Project WAC and electronics technician, who helped to develop bomb-testing equipment at Los Alamos.

W. R. Morgan

Y-12 Plant

W. R. Morgan worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

George Cowan

Los Alamos, NM

George Cowan joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 at the Met Lab as a chemist for Enrico Fermi’s group, and also worked for Columbia University.

V. G. Kucheman

Hanford, WA