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

Raymond C. Grills

Research & Development/300 Area

Raymond C. Grills is an American physical chemist who worked at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory and at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Lloyd Albert Quarterman

Chicago, IL

Lloyd Albert Quarterman (1918-1982) was an American chemist. Quarterman was born on May 31, 1918 in Philadelphia.

Logan Emlet

X-10 Graphite Reactor

Logan Emlet was the Director of the Operations Division at the X-10 reactor in Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project.

Milton Grissom

Los Alamos, NM