Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Steve Buckingham

ChemistHanford, WA

B Reactor/100 AreaT-Plant/200 Areas
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist
Steve Buckingham Listen to Steve Buckingham’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Steve Buckingham worked as a chemist at the Hanford site beginning in 1947. He understood well how the B Reactor worked and also worked with the T-Plant.

Steve Buckingham’s Timeline
1947 Began work at the Manhattan Project Hanford site

Related Profiles

Gerald F. Putnam

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended Notre Dame University.

R. E. Carroll

Oak Ridge, TN

R. E. Carroll worked for the Roane-Anderson Company.

Edred B. Williams

Los Alamos, NM

Dorotha Hogan Crisp

Y-12 Plant

Dorotha “Dot” Hogan Crisp, from Midway in Greene County, TN, began working for Tennessee Eastman Corporation as a cubicle operator, better known as a “Calutron Girl,” at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge in 1944, before transferring to the Y-12 personnel office as a clerical assistant in 1945.