Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Robert Kupp joined the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge in January 1945. Kupp was a supervisor in the Line Recorder Department at K-25, where he monitored a mass spectrometer that determined the concentration of various material in the cascade while it was being processed. After the war, Kupp went on to a prestigious career as a nuclear engineer and published a book about his work experiences, A Nuclear Engineer in the Twentieth Century.

Robert Kupp’s Timeline
1945 Jan Joined the Manhattan Project

Related Profiles

Helen E. Nemeth

Los Alamos, NM

Helen Nemeth was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.

L. G. A. Casey

Hanford, WA

Arthur Caress

Oak Ridge, TN

J. Philip Cooke

Hanford, WA