Clarence R. Wayland

Private First ClassTinian Island

Wendover, UT

509th Composite GroupManhattan Project VeteranMilitary Veteran

Clarence R. Wayland served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.

Related Profiles

O. L. Koch

Oak Ridge, TN

O. L. Koch worked for the Midwest Piping and Supply Company.

James Franck (1882-1964) was a German physicist and winner of the 1925 Nobel Prize for Physics. During the Manhattan Project, Franck served as Director of the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.

Joan E. Curran

University of California, Berkeley

Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.

W. L. Ginkel

Y-12 Plant

W. L. Ginkel worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.