Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Robert L. Schuch

Shop WorkerChicago, IL

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
Sketch of Chicago Pile-1 by Melvin A. Miller

Robert Schuch worked in the shop at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

In 1956, he worked on a team that developed the HUMCO whole-body counter to detect radioactivity on humans. 

Related Profiles

Herman J. Kase

Los Alamos, NM

Melvin L. Hogue

Tinian Island

Melvin L. Hogue served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.

Harry Breach

Los Alamos, NM

George R. Kunze

K-25 Plant

Attended University of Michigan.