Start My Family Tree Welcome to Geni, home of the world's largest family tree.
Join Geni to explore your genealogy and family history in the World's Largest Family Tree.

Manhattan Project (1942–45)

Project Tags

view all

Profiles

  • Theodore Alvin Hall (1925 - 1999)
    FamilySearch Family Tree Birth: Oct 20 1925 - N Y C, New York, United States
  • Edwin Mattison McMillan, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 1951 (1907 - 1991)
    Edwin Mattison McMillan (September 18, 1907 – September 7, 1991) was an American physicist and nuclear chemist, and Nobel laureate. He shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Glenn Seaborg in 1951, "f...
  • Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr., Nobel Prize in Physics, 1989 (1915 - 2011)
    [ . Norman Foster Ramsey, Jr. ] (August 27, 1915 – November 4, 2011) was an American physicist who was awarded the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physics, together with Hans G. Dehmelt from University of Washingt...
  • Professor Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop, FRS (1911 - 1980)
    Burhop, Eric Henry Stoneley (1911–1980) by R. W. Home This article was published: in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13 , 1993 online in 2006 Eric Henry Stoneley Burhop (1911-1980), p...
  • Isador Amdur (1910 - 1970)
    Dr. Isadore Amdur, 60, professor of physical chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, died Wednesday (June 3) following an operation at the Deaconess Hospital. He lived at 47 Bay...

Wikipedia

mphpa.org

Some 600,000 men and women have worked on the Manhattan project.

Chicago Metallurgical Lab

  • Director: Robert Mulliken

MIT Radiation Lab

Oak Ridge

Los Alamos

  • Director: J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Theoretical Division: Hans Bethe

Nobel prize winners (or winners-to-be)

  • Niels Bohr (1922)
  • James Franck (1925)
  • Arthur Compton (1927)
  • Herald Urey (Chemistry, 1934)
  • James Chadwick (1935)
  • Enrico Fermi (1938)
  • Ernest Lawrence (1939)
  • I. I. Rabi (1944)
  • Hermann Muller (Physiology or Medicine, 1946)
  • Edwin McMillan (Chemistry, 1951)
  • Glenn Seaborg (Chemistry, 1951)
  • Felix Bloch (1952)
  • Edward Purcell (1952)
  • Emilio Segrè (1959)
  • Owen Chamberlain (1959)
  • Willard Libby (Chemistry, 1960)
  • Eugene Wigner (1963)
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer (1963)
  • Richard Feynman (1965)
  • Julian Schwinger (1965)
  • Robert Mulliken (Chemistry, 1966)
  • Hans Bethe (1967)
  • Luis Alvarez (1968)
  • James Rainwater (1975)
  • Aage Bohr (1975)
  • Val Fitch (1980)
  • Jerome Karle (Chemistry, 1985)
  • Norman Ramsey (1989)
  • Joseph Rotblat (Peace, 1995)
  • Frederick Reines (1995)
  • Roy Glauber (2005)