Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

O. L. Wright

Special Engineer DetachmentLos Alamos, NM

Manhattan Project VeteranMilitary VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment

Related Profiles

Sidney S. Schneider

Tinian Island

Sidney Schneider was an aerial gunner and worked in bomb disposal with the 1027th Air Material Squadron in the 509th Composite Group.

Fred Painter

Hanford, WA

Edward W. Powell

K-25 Plant

Attended the Ohio State University.

James Franck

Chicago, IL

James Franck (1882-1964) was a German physicist and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics.   During the Manhattan Project, Franck served as Director of the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.