National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
In a communication to Stone & Webster Engineering Corporation, General Leslie Groves gave instruction to discontinue work on the Y-12 Alpha 1 4-J unit, and, authorized Westinghouse Electric Corporation to hire additional draftsmen to accelerate the Y-12 Alpha 2 30-J uranium enrichment program at Oak Ridge, TN.
Howard “Howie” Wilcox was an American physicist. He studied at the University of Minnesota and was a teaching fellow at Harvard when he was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos.
Iola Brown worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
