National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Edward Tewes was born Jersey City, New Jersey on October 10th, 1922. Following Pearl Harbor, Tewes was drafted and joined the Special Engineer Detachment.
Melvin G. Hopkins served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.
Walt Simon, a chemist, was Hanford’s first Operations Manager. Before joining the Manhattan Project, he was plant manager at Wabash River Ordnance Works, a DuPont plant near Terre Haute, Indiana.
