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Graydon Whitman

Mechanical EngineerOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
EngineerManhattan Project Veteran
Graydon Whitman Listen to Graydon Whitman’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Graydon Whitman arrived at Oak Ridge in March 1944, where he began work at the Y-12 separations facility. Whiteman rose to the position of Track Foreman, where he supervised a crew of more than fifty men and women responsible for operating the calutron "racetrack."

Graydon Whitman’s Timeline
1944 Mar 13th Joined the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, where he worked at the Y-12 separations facility.

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