Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

R. F. Kocher

Project StaffY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Alpha Racetrack at the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennesee

R. F. Kocher worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Related Profiles

Loy G. Whitaker Jr.

Tinian Island

Loy G. Whitaker Jr. served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.

Bernard E. Phillips

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended New Jersey State Teachers College.

Rebecca Bradford Diven

Los Alamos, NM

Rebecca Diven graduated from USC in June of 1941, and became entangled with national defense work at CalTech in 1943.

Waldemar Nielsen

Japan

​ Waldemar Nielsen (1917-2005) worked on the postwar surveys of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan. Nielsen was born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania.