Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

J. R. Miesenheimer

Project StaffB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Miesenheimer (spelling could also be “Misenheimer”) worked in the 100 B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Related Profiles

Miles P. Woodward

Los Alamos, NM

Beth Olds

Chicago, IL

Beth Olds was a secretary at the University of Chicago Met Lab and at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war, she became executive secretary for the Emergency Committee of Atomic Scientists and the Atomic Scientists of Chicago, publishers of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

M. I. Warden

Hanford, WA

T. B. Michell

Hanford, WA