Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Ray Stein

EngineerY-12 Plant

Oak Ridge, TN
EngineerManhattan Project VeteranSpecial Engineer Detachment
Listen to Ray Stein’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

A member of the Special Engineer Detachment of the U.S. Army, Ray Stein participated in the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and was assigned to the Y-12 Plant. At Y-12, he and his fellow SED members donned civilian clothes and were told to keep an eye out for possible saboteurs or spies. It was also at this plant he met the woman he would later marry, Alice Stein.

Related Profiles

Nathaniel C. Saxe

K-25 Plant

Nathaniel Saxe worked for the Kellex Corporation at the K-25 Plant.

C. A. Dobbs

Oak Ridge, TN

C. A. Dobbs worked for the Fercleve Corporation.

Julian Schwinger

MIT

Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and the 1965 Nobel Prize winner. During the summer of 1943, Schwinger briefly worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.

Lawrence A. Wood

Los Alamos, NM