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.
Louis J. Hefferman served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.
Joe McKibben was born and raised in rural Missouri before obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin.
W. M. Miller worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
