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

John R. Farmakes

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended the University of Wisconsin.

Bruno Rossi

Los Alamos, NM

Bruno Rossi (1908-1993) was an Italian physicist. Rossi was a promising young scientist when his career was redirected by politics.

Gertrude F. Steel

Chicago, IL

Gertrude Steel was a junior chemist at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.

Thomas W. Bloss

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Attended Case Western Reserve University.