Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

LeRoy Thornton

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

LeRoy Thornton worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Related Profiles

Charles Robinson

Los Alamos, NM

Charles Robinson was a site engineer at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

M. A. Campbell

Oak Ridge, TN

M. A. Campbell worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Howard Rosenthal

Tinian Island

Howard Rosenthal served in the First Ordnance Squadron.

Melvin A. Miller

Chicago, IL

Melvin A. Miller was a draftsman at the University of Chicago Met Lab. In 1946, he sketched two famous drawings of Chicago Pile-1 based on the descriptions of scientists who were present when it went critical.