Alvin M. Weinberg
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Alvin Martin Weinberg was an American nuclear physicist who was the administrator of Oak Ridge National Laboratory during and after the Manhattan Project. He came to Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in 1945 and
Alvin Weinberg, c. 1960
Eugene Wigner (left) with Weinberg (right) at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Weinberg noting "6000 full-power hours!" of MSRE operation in 1967.
Weinberg speaks with Senator John F. Kennedy at Oak Ridge in 1959
Oak Ridge National Laboratory is a federally funded research and development center in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1943, the laboratory is sponsored by the United States Department
Aerial view of ORNL's main campus in 2014
Workers in 1943 loading uranium slugs into the X-10 Graphite Reactor (now a National Historic Landmark)
The core of the Molten Salt Reactor Experiment
Cayce Pentecost, Lyndon B. Johnson, Buford Ellington and Albert Gore Sr. operating mechanical hands at a hot cell at Oak Ridge, on October 19, 1958