Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Gordon Knobeloch

ChemistLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranScientistSpecial Engineer Detachment
Listen to Gordon Knobeloch’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Gordon Knobeloch was drafted into the Army directly out of Washington University in St. Louis. He was deployed to Los Alamos. There, he worked on the RaLa experiments, which were critical for developing the implosion-style plutonium bomb.

Related Profiles

F.M. Snorf

Hanford, WA

Bernard Peters

University of California, Berkeley

Bernard Peters (1910-1993,) born Bernhard Pietrokowski, was a Polish-born physicist.  Peters was born in Poland and later moved to Germany.

Ted Kwasnoski

K-25 Plant

Attended Pennsylvania State University.

H. V. Turpeinen

T-Plant/200 Areas

Turpeinen worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.