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Preston Veltman was an American chemist. Veltman was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He studied at Michigan Technological University, and earned a Ph.
Colonel Franklin Matthias (1908 – 1993) was the officer-in-charge at the Hanford site. Matthias, a civil engineer, had been a close associate of General Groves since the beginning of the Manhattan Project, and was asked to review sites in the West.
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Robert Traver was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
