Nuclear Museum Logo
Nuclear Museum Logo

National Museum of Nuclear Science & History

William R. Merkle

SergeantTinian Island

Wendover, UT
509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran
North Airfield at Tinian Island.

William R. Merkle served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.

Related Profiles

C.K. Sloan

B Reactor/100 Area

Sloan worked at the 100-B Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

O.E. Snyder

T-Plant/200 Areas

Snyder worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.

Ralph Lapp

Chicago, IL

Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.

John G. Ryan

Los Alamos, NM

John Ryan was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.