Wallace Reynolds

ScientistTinian Island

Oak Ridge, TNUniversity of California, Berkeley

Manhattan Project VeteranProject Worker/StaffScientist

Listen to Wallace Reynolds’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Before the war, Reynolds worked closely with Ernest Lawrence planning and developing the cyclotrons at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as working in the radiation lab at there. During the war, Reynolds moved his work to Oak Ridge, where he assisted in the Alpha and Beta projects. After the war, Reynolds continued his work at Berkeley.

Wallace Reynolds’s Timeline

1922 Began his studies in Electrical Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.

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