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

J. H. Dunn

Hanford, WA

Clement P. Broderick

Oak Ridge, TN

Broderick worked in the United States Engineer District Office.

W. Schrader

Hanford, WA

Schrader worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Ernest O. Lawrence

University of California, Berkeley

Ernest O. Lawrence (1901-1958) was an American scientist and 1939 recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics for his invention of the cyclotron.