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.
Hester Moore was a supervisor in the Communications Department at the Manhattan Project’s Hanford, Washington site during World War II.
Melvin A. Miller was a draftsman at the University of Chicago Met Lab. In 1946, he sketched two famous drawings of Chicago Pile-1 based on the descriptions of scientists who were present when it went critical.
William Havens was an American physicist. Havens was born in 1920 in New York City. He received a B.S.
