National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
Samual Watson was a machinist from Kirksy, Kentucky employed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee during the Manhattan Project.
G. E. Fairchild worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
