Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Luzell Johnson

Cement FinisherHanford, WA

African-AmericanManhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Hanford Listen to Luzell Johnson’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Luzell Johnson left a factory job in Alabama for a much higher-paying one as a cement finisher at Hanford. His wife later joined him, and they bought a house in Hanford; like many Hanford workers, Johnson settled in the area after the war.

Related Profiles

Donald C. Harms

Tinian Island

Part of the Special Engineer Detachment (SED), Donald C. Harms was first sent to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to work on the Manhattan Project.

W. L. Sheets

Oak Ridge, TN

Sheets worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

Alice G. Curd

Oak Ridge, TN

Alice Curd worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Bernard C. Voyten

Los Alamos, NM

Bernard Voyten was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.