Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

Wendell Furry

PhysicistMIT

Postwar Nuclear ProgramScientist
MIT Rad Lab

Wendell Furry (1907-1986) was an American physicist. He worked at the highest levels in physics before being persecuted by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. 

Related Profiles

David S. Anthony

Chicago, IL

David S. Anthony (1918-2010) was an American chemist. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, he joined the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratory as an associate chemist.

Reuben McCord

Oak Ridge, TN

Reuben McCord was a chemist who worked at several Manhattan Project sites. After graduating from Erskine College in South Carolina, he was recruited to work at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory.

Kenneth A. Walsh

Los Alamos, NM

Kenneth Walsh was an American chemist. Walsh studied as an undergrad at Yankton College in South Dakota.

Ted Taylor

Los Alamos, NM

Ted Taylor (as pictured, Copyright © 1993/2022 Stephen S. Myer) was born in 1925 in Mexico City, Mexico.