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

Elaine Palevsky

Los Alamos, NM

Palevsky worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago and Los Alamos. She was part of the team that designed the lenses used to photograph the Trinity test.

Eleanor Ewing

Los Alamos, NM

Eleanor Ewing Ehrlich (1918-2011) was an American mathematician. During the Manhattan Project, Ewing worked at Los Alamos and helped run the IBM calculating team.

William Nierenberg

Los Alamos, NM

William Nierenberg was an accomplished theoretical physicist and oceanographer, who is known for his work in magnetic resonance and low-energy nuclear physics.

Alexander Zuckerbraun

K-25 Plant

Attended the University of Michigan.