National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Charles Allen Thomas (1900-1982) was an American chemist and industrial leader. Thomas was recruited to join the Manhattan Project in 1942 by General Groves, who offered him a postion as a deputy to Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
Patricia Lear was a laboratory technician in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Allen worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
