Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

W. R. Connelly

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

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

Related Profiles

William L. Hawes

Oak Ridge, TN

Osmer A. Palmer

Los Alamos, NM

George Cowan

Los Alamos, NM

George Cowan joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 at the Met Lab as a chemist for Enrico Fermi’s group, and also worked for Columbia University.

Garoun M. Andrangigian

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the University of Michigan.