Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

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

M. H. Stratton

B Reactor/100 Area

Stratton worked at the 100-F Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Anita Lieberman Katz

Manhattan, NY

Anita Lieberman Katz was a clerk who worked on the Manhattan Project from May 1943 to January 1946. She was born in New York City in 1920 and graduated from Hunter College.

Virginia Lipscomb

Oak Ridge, TN

Virginia Lipscomb worked for the Edenfield Electric Company.

Melvin S. Friedman

Chicago, IL

Melvin S. Friedman was an associate chemist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.