Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

S. G. Thompson

Project StaffHanford, WA

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff

Related Profiles

L. D. Burtenshaw

Y-12 Plant

L. D. Burtenshaw worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Ralph Lapp

Chicago, IL

Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.

Dorothy E. Carter

Chicago, IL

Dorothy E. Carter was a lab technician in the Health Division at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.

T. W. Wheary

Oak Ridge, TN

T. W. Wheary worked for the J.A. Jones Construction Company.