National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Reuben McCord was a chemist who worked at several Manhattan Project sites. After graduating from Erskine College in South Carolina, he was recruited to work at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory.
William Sterling “Deak” Parsons was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1922 and the Naval Postgraduate School in 1929 with a concentration in ordnance.
Kopanski worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
