National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Orville D. Priest was born June 10th, 1918. He served in the US Army in the 1940’s during a very difficult and important time in our country’s history.
Harris Small was stationed in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, in the Special Engineer Department (SED). He served as a supervising civilian operator of shifts (the Calutron girls) at the Y-12 Electromagnetic Separation Plant.
Sam Weissman (1912-2007) was an American chemist. Weissman was born in South Bend, Indiana. He received a B.
Jimmy Vale joined the Manhattan Project in 1943, where he helped operate calutrons as part of Ernest O.
