National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.
Caesar Bango was a recreation officer at Los Alamos. Bango was born on November 16, 1924 in Anmoore, West Virginia.
Dorothea “Dot” Hoover Seybolt was the wife of metallurgist Alan Seybolt, who worked at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Lester Orlan Keen worked as an engineering draftsman at Hanford during the Manhattan Project. His son, Jack Keen, was a young boy at the time.
