Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

John Miles was a physicist for the DuPont Company. During the Manhattan Project, he worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab and at Hanford. According to physicist David Hall’s interview on the Voices of the Manhattan Project websiteMiles was responsible for “shepherding” the DuPont physicists who went there to oversee the construction of the plutonium reactors.

Related Profiles

Fredrick “Fred” D. Johnson

Chicago, IL

Fredrick “Fred” D. Johnson was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

Leonard Pieczontka

Los Alamos, NM

Henry E. Fritz

Oak Ridge, TN

Henry Fritz was a chemist in the Special Engineering Detachment assigned to the K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee.

V. J. Cronan

Hanford, WA