National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Eldred C. “E.C.” Nelson (1917-2008) was an American physicist. Not long after arriving at the University of California, Berkeley to study physics, Nelson was recruited by his professor, J.
Daniel D. Friel was a chemical engineer for the DuPont Company who joined the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago in 1943.
Dr. Leslie T. McClinton was a research assistant at the University of Chicago Met Lab. After three months of working at the Met Lab, McClinton was transferred to Oak Ridge in 1943.