National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Tom Gary headed the design division at the DuPont Company and served on the committee which decided among the proposed fissionable material production and purification processes.
In 1942, James E. Fix, was a 16-year-old freshman at Texas A&M University. Fix was drafted into the Army, and, after basic training, twenty men in his unit were chosen for the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP).
