National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
J. W. Hitch worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
Attended Yale University.
Stanley G. Thompson was an American chemist responsible for the bismuth phosphate separation process used in the production of plutonium at the Hanford site during the Manhattan Project.
