National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Merrill Garrett worked at the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project. A high school football star, Garrett received an appointment to the United States Military Academy, but was forced to decline due to financial circumstances during the Great Depression.
Ralph A. Brininger served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.
John R. Dunning (1907-1975) was an American physicist. Dunning gained the reputation in his small community of Shelby, Nebraska as the town’s smartest kid.
L. R. Olive worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
