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

William A. McDonald

Los Alamos, NM

Samuel P. Massie Jr.

Ames, IA

Samuel Proctor Massie Jr. (1919-2005) was an African American chemist who worked on the Manhattan Project.

Michael F. Griffin

Tinian Island

Michael F. Griffin served in the 1027th Air Material Squadron. 

William A. Wilson

Oak Ridge, TN

William Wilson