Individual Details

The Press-Enterprise, Riverside, California, Friday, March 12, 1993, Riverside, Moreno Valley Edition, Page B 05: Services for Herbert G. "Mac" MacPherson, previous resident of Riverside, were held in Oak Ridge, Tenn. He died of a heart attack Jan. 26 while vacationing in Guatemala. He was 81. Mr. MacPherson, who was born in Apple Valley, lived in Riverside from 1916 until his second year of high school at Polytechnic High School. He was a nuclear physicist, and when he retired he was deputy director of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. He designed the Molten Salt nuclear reactor, also known as H.G. "Mac" MacPherson's reactor, an experimental reactor design for powering nuclear power plants in the mid-60's through 1971. Elements of his early work are being used all over the world in designing new and "safe" reactors. He had traveled to Japan at the request of Japanese reactor experts. Mr. MacPherson also worked at the Institute of Energy Analysis. He is survived by his wife, Janet; a son, Robert of Quincy, Mass.; a daughter, Candy O'Donel-Browne; two brothers, Gordon of Sebastopol and Donald of Riverside; and two grandchildren.

Birth	2 Nov 1911	Apple Valley, San Bernardino Co., California
Marriage	5 Jun 1937	Philadelphia, Philadelphia Co., Pennsylvania - Jeanette Taylor "Janet" Wolfenden
Death	26 Jan 1993	Guadalajara, , Jalisco, Mexico
Burial		H. G. "Mac" MacPherson, Oak Ridge Memorial Park, Oak Ridge, Anderson Co., Tennessee

Spouse	Jeanette Taylor "Janet" Wolfenden (1911 - 1995)
Child	Candy MacPherson ( - )
Child	Robert D. MacPherson ( - )

Father	Duncan W MacPherson (1866 - 1929)
Mother	Minnie Belle Morrison (1880 - 1979)
Sibling	Donald Thomas MacPherson (1906 - 1999)
Sibling	Gordon Robert MacPherson (1909 - 2000)