National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
I. Devenish worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Walt Simon, a chemist, was Hanford’s first Operations Manager. Before joining the Manhattan Project, he was plant manager at Wabash River Ordnance Works, a DuPont plant near Terre Haute, Indiana.
Donald “Don” Hornig (1920-2013) was an American chemist. Hornig was recruited to join the laboratory at Los Alamos in 1944, just one year after receiving his doctorate in physcial chemistry from Harvard University.
Florentino Ortiz was a carpenter at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
