Jack Aeby discusses working with Emilio Segrè at Los Alamos, and being the only person to capture a color photograph of the Trinity atomic bomb test...
Oral Histories: Jack Aeby's Interview
Harold Agnew worked on the Manhattan Project at various locations and served as the director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1970-1979....
Oral Histories: Harold Agnew's Interview
Donald Ames describes his experience living and working under Glenn Seaborg at the University of Chicago Metallurgical Laboratories as a G....
Oral Histories: Donald Ames's Interview
Benjamin Bederson, a New York native, was selected to serve in the Special Engineering Detachment during the Manhattan Project. A physicist, he was...
Oral Histories: Benjamin Bederson's Interview
Colleen Black discusses everyday life, secrecy, and working as a woman on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. From housing to security, Ms...
Oral Histories: Colleen Black's Interview
Berlyn Brixer worked as a photographer and camera engineer at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He filmed the Trinity test on motion capture...
Oral Histories: Berlyn Brixner's Interview
Rex Buck, a member of the Wanapum Indian tribe, grew up near the Manhattan Project site at Hanford along the Columbia River. When the government...
Oral Histories: Rex Buck's Interview
Steve Buckingham, a chemist, worked at the Hanford site beginning in 1947. He explains how the B Reactor worked, and applauds the ingenuity of the...
Oral Histories: Steve Buckingham's Interview
Stirling Auchincloss Colgate was a student at the Los Alamos Ranch School when the site was chosen for use in the Manhattan Project, and he describes...
Oral Histories: Stirling Auchincloss Colgate's Interview
George Cowan joined the Manhattan Project in 1942 at the Met Lab as a chemist for Enrico Fermi’s group. He also worked for Columbia University and...
Oral Histories: George Cowan's Interview
A native of Northern Idaho, Larry Denton was recruited by his father to work on the B Reactor in Hanford, Washington. At the age of twenty-one,...
Oral Histories: Lawrence Denton's Interview
Felix DePaula talks about his role as “garbage man” at Los Alamos and witnessing the Trinity test. He discusses everyday life at Los Alamos, from...
Oral Histories: Felix DePaula's Interview
Ben Diven discusses helping set up Los Alamos for the Manhattan Project and working on instrumentation for the atomic bomb. He speaks highly of J....
Oral Histories: Ben Diven's Interview
Becky Diven began her work for the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in 1944, where she developed a quartz fiber microbalance to weigh extremely small...
Oral Histories: Rebecca Bradford Diven's Interview
Joe Dykstra joined the Manhattan Project with Hooker Electrochemical Company at Oak Ridge, working at K-25 on the gaseous diffusion process. He...
Oral Histories: Joe Dykstra's Interview
Evelyn Ellingson describes working as a woman at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, expounding on the security measures but also the vibrant social life of a city...
Oral Histories: Evelyn Ellingson's Interview
Robert Ellingson came to work on the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where he met his wife and has lived ever since, and speaks fondly of...
Oral Histories: Robert Ellingson's Interview
James Forde was a lab assistant in the Nash Garage Building, where scientists worked on developing the gaseous diffusion process. Seventeen year-old...
Oral Histories: James Forde's Interview
Max Gittler was working on his degree in mechanical engineering at NYU when he was drafted into the Army during World War II. He was sent to Oak...
Oral Histories: Max Gittler's Interview
Born in Czechoslovakia, Lilli Hornig and her family immigrated to the United States from Berlin after her father was threatened with imprisonment in...
Oral Histories: Lilli Hornig's Interview
Minnesota native Roger Hultgren worked for the DuPont Company as a chemist during the early 1940s, when he was suddenly transferred to Hanford to...
Oral Histories: Roger Hultgren's Interview
Harry Kamack worked as a chemical engineer for the DuPont Company during the early 1940s, when he was transferred to Chicago to work at the...
Oral Histories: Harry Kamack's Interview
Gordon Knobeloch worked on the RaLa Experiment at Los Alamos, which was crucial to developing the spherical implosion necessary for the plutonium...
Oral Histories: Gordon Knobeloch's Interview
Pat Krikorian arrived at Los Alamos in August of 1943, where she worked as a secretary for the Women’s Army Corps. Krikorian also worked with other...
Oral Histories: Pat Krikorian's Interview
Harris Harold Levee served in the Special Engineering Detachment at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago on the Manhattan...
Oral Histories: Harris Harold Levee's Interview
Lawrence Litz was a young physicist when he began working on radioactivity at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. From there...
Oral Histories: Lawrence Litz's 2012 Interview
Evelyne Litz worked in health physics and as a librarian during the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. She was the second person, after her husband...
Oral Histories: Evelyne Litz's Interview
Lawrence Litz was a young physicist when he began working on radioactivity at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago. From there...
Oral Histories: Lawrence Litz's 2007 Interview
George Mahfouz became involved in the Manhattan Project first in Decatur, Illinois building gaseous diffusion tubes for the K-25 plant at Oak Ridge,...
Oral Histories: George Mahfouz's Interview
Kay Manley’s husband was personally called by Leo Szilard and asked to move from the Met Lab at Chicago to Los Alamos. She herself worked on...
Oral Histories: Kay Manley's Interview
Dee McCullough began working as an instrument technician at Hanford in early 1944. As a former sound engineer, McCullough was tasked with installing...
Oral Histories: Dee McCullough's Interview
Anne McKusick worked at the Y-12 Plant for Tennessee Eastman. She remembers dancing with Ernest Lawrence at one of Oak Ridge’s dances. Because of the...
Oral Histories: Anne McKusick's Interview
Mary Michel worked at Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project and discusses living in the “Secret City” and the general social scene, also going into...
Oral Histories: Mary Lowe Michel's Interview
Darragh Nagle graduated from Columbia University and worked with Enrico Fermi and Herbert Anderson at the Chicago Pile during the early years of the...
Oral Histories: Darragh Nagle's Interview
Lawrence S. O’Rourke began working on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University after he was called up from the Army Reserves in 1944. O’Rourke...
Oral Histories: Lawrence S. O'Rourke's Interview
Bob Porton worked in the recreation division at Los Alamos. A soldier in first the Provisional Engineer Detachment and then the Special Engineer...
Oral Histories: Bob Porton's Interview
Eleanor Roensch worked as a telephone operator in Los Alamos. She remembers a fire breaking out in one of the technical buildings and the concern...
Oral Histories: Eleanor Roensch's Interview
Arno Roensch, a glass blower in the Army, worked at Los Alamos. He met his wife, Eleanor Roensch, after catching her eye while playing in the band at...
Oral Histories: Arno Roensch's Interview
John Schacter was born in Austria and immigrated to the United States after Hitler came to power in Germany. He first worked on the Manhattan Project...
Oral Histories: John Schacter's Interview
William Schneller worked for DuPont at Hanford on the Manhattan Project, and later at Oak Ridge. He recalls DuPont’s emphasis on safety, the fear...
Oral Histories: William Schneller's Interview
James A. Schoke was selected to be part of the Special Engineer Detachment that worked at the Metallurgical Laboratory at the University of Chicago...
Oral Histories: James A. Schoke's Interview
Robert Schwerin arrived at Los Alamos in June of 1945 and worked as a security guard for the Manhattan Project, often guarding plutonium. He provided...
Oral Histories: Robert Schwerin's Interview
Richard Shepard joined the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge, working in the K-25 Plant as a member of the Special Engineer Detachment. With many family...
Oral Histories: Richard Shepard's Interview
Russell Stanton, a civil engineer, arrived at Hanford in October 1943 after working at various DuPont plants across the country. At Hanford, Stanton...
Oral Histories: Russell Stanton's Interview
Carolyn Stelzman worked at the K-25 Plant in Oak Ridge as an operator and leak-detector. She recalls Oak Ridge’s excellent bus system, the rain and...
Oral Histories: Carolyn Stelzman's Interview
Veronica Taylor is a member of the Nez Perce Tribe and grew up along the Columbia River near the Manhattan Project site at Hanford. Taylor discusses...
Oral Histories: Veronica Taylor's Interview
Louisville native John Tepe began working for the DuPont Company in 1939 after he received his bachelor’s degree and his master’s degree in chemical...
Oral Histories: John Tepe
Donald Trauger became involved in the Manhattan Project at Columbia University, working on the gaseous diffusion process. He discusses the science of...
Oral Histories: Donald Trauger's Interview
Paul Vinther arrived in Hanford in 1950 where he worked as a physicist and reactor operator. Vinther discusses, in detail, DuPont’s safety philosophy...
Oral Histories: Paul Vinther's Interview
Watson C. Warriner, Sr., a trained chemical engineer, worked for DuPont on the Manhattan Project. During the war he worked on building ordnance...
Oral Histories: Watson C. Warriner, Sr.'s Interview
