Gerald F. Smith

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment

Gerald F. Smith served in the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos, NM during the Manhattan Project. He worked in the Technical Area. He was in a group of five Army enlisted men to set up and run a darkroom to develop X-ray films.

Related Profiles

A.W. Spanton

Hanford, WA

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr.

Chicago, IL

J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923-2011) was a prominent African American mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project.

Roy H. Beaton

T-Plant/200 Areas

Beaton worked in the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Murray Peshkin

Los Alamos, NM

Murray Peshkin (1925-2017) was an American physicist. Peshkin was recruited by the Army to work at Los Alamos during World War II.