Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Howard Gest

Project StaffX-10 Graphite Reactor

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The X-10 Graphite Reactor at Oak Ridge

Howard Gest worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor. Gest was one of the scientists who signed Leo Szilard’s petition against the use of the atomic bomb.

Related Profiles

Jack P. Pierard

Hanford, WA

Edward J. Simon

Oak Ridge, TN

Edward Simon worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Alma K. Sheffler

Oak Ridge, TN

Alma Sheffler worked for the United States Engineer District Office.

Aage Niels Bohr

Los Alamos, NM

Aage Niels Bohr (1922-2009) was a Danish nuclear physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics.