National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Merrill Garrett worked at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project. A high school football star, Garrett received an appointment to the United States Military Academy, but was forced to decline due to financial circumstances during the Great Depression.
Rene Prestwood was an American nuclear chemist. Prestwood was recruited for the Manhattan Project as a young chemist from the University of California-Berkeley.
