National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
C. B. Proudfoot worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
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.
William F. Boudreau (1914-2001) worked on the Manhattan Project at Columbia University. Boudreau was born in Columbus, Ohio.
Lawrence H. Johnston was an American physicist. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of California, Berkeley in 1940, Johnston followed his mentor Luis Alvarez to MIT.
