Manhattan Project: People Images

PEOPLE IMAGES
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Scroll down to see each of these images individually. The images are:

1. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Ernest Lawrence (courtesy
the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory);

2. Hanford, Washington, workers sending money home (reproduced from the photo insert in F. G. Gosling, The Manhattan Project: Making the Atomic Bomb (Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, October 2001));

3. Oppenheimer and Leslie Groves at the Trinity Site, September 1945 (reproduced from the cover of the Office of History and Heritage Resources publication: The Signature Facilities of the Manhattan Project (Washington: History Division, Department of Energy, 2001));

4. A WAC detachment marching at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, June 1945 (courtesy the Army Corps of Engineers; it is reprinted in Rachel Fermi and Esther Samra, Picturing the Bomb: Photographs from the Secret World of the Manhattan Project (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1995), 40);

5. Ernest Lawrence, Arthur Compton, Vannevar Bush, and James Conant, Berkeley, California, March 1940 (click here for more information on this photograph);

6. Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard (courtesy the Federation of American Scientists);

7. Lise Meitner and Otto Hahn, Kaiser Wilhelm Institute, Berlin (courtesy the Department of Energy, via the National Archives; the National Archives identifies the man as Ernest Rutherford, but other sources agree that the man is Hahn);

8. A Marine at Okinawa, May 10, 1945 (courtesy the United States Marine Corps, via the National Archives); and

9. A propaganda poster entitled "Silence Means Security" (courtesy the Office of Government Reports, United States Information Service, Division of Public Inquiry, Bureau of Special Services, Office of War Information, via the National Archives).

Oppenheimer, Fermi, and Lawrence