Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Reuben McCord

ChemistOak Ridge, TN

Chicago, ILHanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist
The Chapel on the Hill

Reuben McCord was a chemist who worked at several Manhattan Project sites. After graduating from Erskine College in South Carolina, he was recruited to work at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory. In 1943 he began working at the Oak Ridge project site. Later on, he would also spend time at the Hanford project site.

Related Profiles

M. E. Johnson

Y-12 Plant

M. E. Johnson worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

James Hoag

Los Alamos, NM

Frank E. Sutton

Tinian Island

Frank E. Sutton served as a private first class in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Top Secret.

Kenneth May

University of California, Berkeley

Kenneth May was an American mathematician. May was an ardent Communist in Berkeley who was also part of the intellectual community formed by many of the left-leaning physics students at the Radiation Lab at the University of California, Berkeley.