Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

W. Lon Silver

Project WorkerOak Ridge, TN

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/Staff
The Chapel on the Hill in Oak Ridge

Silver worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.

Related Profiles

Augusta “Mici” Teller

Los Alamos, NM

Augusta “Mici” Teller, born Augusta Maria Harkányi  (1909-2000) was a Hungarian-American mathematician and wife of Manhattan Project physicist Edward Teller.

George Banic

Y-12 Plant

George Banic worked on high voltage power supplies for the General Electric Company in Schenectady, New York, and came to Oak Ridge in March 1944, to help with the Y-12 Plant.

Walter E. Dial

Tinian Island

Walter E. Dial served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron. 

F. R. O’Brien

Y-12 Plant

F. R. O'Brien worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.