Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

L. V. Withers

Project StaffOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Chapel on the Hill in Oak Ridge

L. V. Withers worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Related Profiles

Herbert E. Kubitschek

Chicago, IL

Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.

Wesley R. Prohs

Tinian Island

Wesley R. Prohs served in the United States Naval Reserve. He also worked as a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Jacob Deutsch

Oak Ridge, TN

Deutsch worked in the United States Engineer District Office.

Gay C. Lingley

Oak Ridge, TN

Gay Lingley worked for the United States Engineer District Office.