Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Haydn Jones was a research assistant in the Physics Division at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.According to Nuclear EnergyJones later worked at Clinton Laboratories in Oak Ridge, TN (Weinberg, ed., p. 128).

At the Met Lab, Jones was also the supervisor of the laboratory’s shop (Holl, Hewlett, and Harris, p. 13). In the Journal of Glenn T. Seaborg, Vol 2., Seaborg noted that Jones attended a Project Council Information Meeting on Nuclear Physics on March 7, 1944 (Seaborg, p. 469).

Related Profiles

Edward Shapiro

Chicago, IL

Edward Shapiro was an American scientist and Manhattan Project veteran. After receiving a Ph.D. from Purdue University, Shapiro worked as a research associate for the Manhattan Project at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago and at Oak Ridge.

J. S. McMahon

Hanford, WA

Gloria Peterson

Chicago, IL

Gloria Peterson was a stenographer and clerical worker at the Chicago Met Lab.

Mary M. Fair

Chicago, IL

Mary Fair worked as a lab assistant at the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago. She was not sure of the purpose of her work, but often used radiation detecting devices in the experiments.