Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Horace E. Mahorney

Chemical EngineerOak Ridge, TN

University of California, BerkeleyY-12 Plant
Manhattan Project Veteran
Y-12 Calutron Girls

Horace Mahorney was a chemical engineer at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From September 1943 to November 1945, Mahorney was an operator of the mass spectrometer with Dr. Oliver Loud. Mahorney had come from the University of California at Berkeley to help draft an operational guide for Building 2 at the Y-12 Plant. 

Related Profiles

Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz

University of California, Berkeley

Giovanni Rossi Lomanitz (1921-2002) was an American theoretical physicist. Lomanitz was the son of a Polish political radical who had fled Eastern Europe to avoid military service.

R. Overson

Hanford, WA

Robert C. McCoy

Oak Ridge, TN

Robert McCoy worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

Harold Payne

Y-12 Plant

Harold Payne worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.