National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Rainwater assisted the Manhattan Project through research in the Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Lab.
Walt Grisham grew up on a farm at Hanford in the 1930s. He was serving in the Air Force in England during World War II when his parents were informed that they would need to leave the farm – the site was being requisitioned for the Manhattan Project.
Frances Dunne was an explosives technician in Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. She attended multiple universities but never obtained a degree.
