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

Robert Schaffer

Los Alamos, NM

Robert Schaffer was an American chemist. Schaffer was born in Brooklyn, and studied at Brooklyn College.

Marion Edward Cieslicki

Los Alamos, NM

Marion Edward Cieslicki was an Polish American metallurgist who worked on the Manhattan Project from 1944 to 1946 at the University of Chicago and at Los Alamos.

Bernard Steinberg

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended Purdue University.

David Gurlinsky

Chicago, IL

David Gurlinsky was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.