National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.
Marion Van Gemert was born in Wisconsin. She received her bachelor’s degree in home economics from Stout State College.
William M. Eichbaum worked on the Manhattan Project in Oak Ridge, TN for the Clinton Engineer Works.
