National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Eldred C. “E.C.” Nelson (1917-2008) was an American physicist. Not long after arriving at the University of California, Berkeley to study physics, Nelson was recruited by his professor, J.
James Forde joined the Manhattan Project in 1944 when he was hired by the Union Carbide and Carbon Company to work at the Nash Garage Building at Columbia University, where scientists worked on developing the gaseous diffusion process.
