Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

W. A. Briggs

Project StaffB Reactor/100 Area

Hanford, WA
Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The first large-scale nuclear reactor in history, the B-Reactor, in Hanford, Washington

Briggs worked at the 100-D Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. 

Related Profiles

R. I. Newcomb

Los Alamos, NM

Rose Southern

Hanford, WA

A. L. Techenbrock

Hanford, WA

David H. Frisch

Los Alamos, NM

David H. Frisch was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, working with the Van de Graaff long tank accelerator to measure neutron cross sections.