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A.M. Scherffius

Hanford, WA

Lew Kowarski

France

Lew Kowarski was a Russian-born French physicist. He worked as part of the team that discovered that neutrons were emitted in the fission of uranium-235 in the 1930s, setting the groundwork for the use of nuclear chain reactions in the design of the atomic bomb.

C. D. Susano

Y-12 Plant

C. D. Susano worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Stanley Stief

K-25 Plant

Stanley Stief attended Pennsylvania State University.  He remained in the Oak Ridge area, working first for the government and later for Union Carbide.