Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Joseph C. McGuire

ChemistOak Ridge, TN

Y-12 Plant
Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment
Y-12 Calutron Girls

Joseph Mcguire was a chemist with the Special Engineering Detachment at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. After the war, McGuire became a civilian scientist for Argonne National Laboratory, Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, McDonnell Douglas Laboratories, and Westinghouse Laboratories in Richland, Washington. 

Related Profiles

Harold M. Feder

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art.

Lawrence Langer

Tinian Island

Lawrence Langer served in the Special Engineering Detachment and Project Alberta as part of the team that transported and assembled the Little Boy and Fat Man atomic bombs.

Niels G. Thude

Los Alamos, NM

Niels Thude was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

C. R. Epple

Hanford, WA