National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
T. H. Lackey worked for the Edenfield Electric Company.
Robert F. Christy (1916-2012) was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist Christy’s doctoral advisor at the University of California, Berkeley was Robert Oppenheimer, but Christy’s initial involvement with the Manhattan Project came at the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.
Clyde Stanley Shields was born on December 28, 1918 in Wichita, Kansas. After graduating from Mitchell High School in South Dakota, in May of 1936, Shields enlisted in the South Dakota National Guard.
Robert Ellingson arrived in Oak Ridge in June 1943. Shortly after Ellingson arrived, however, he was informed by his employer, Tennessee Eastman, that they already had too many chemists and chemical engineers.
