National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
James Porterie was a security guard at Los Alamos tasked with guarding bomb components. Porterie went to Aberdeen Proving Ground for Ordnance School before volunteering for an assignment at Los Alamos.
C. L. Quast worked for the Kellex Corporation at the K-25 Plant.
Cartmell worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Nicholas Constantine Metropolis was born on June 11th, 1915, in Chicago. In 1936 he received his bachelor’s degree, and in 1941, his doctorate, both from the University of Chicago, and both in experimental physics.
