National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Gaul was fresh out of high school when he arrived in Los Alamos. He was a member of the Provisional Engineer Detachment (PED).
Attended Alfred University.
Walt Simon, a chemist, was Hanford’s first Operations Manager. Before joining the Manhattan Project, he was plant manager at Wabash River Ordnance Works, a DuPont plant near Terre Haute, Indiana.
