National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Charles Allen Thomas (1900-1982) was an American chemist and industrial leader. Thomas was recruited to join the Manhattan Project in 1942 by General Groves, who offered him a postion as a deputy to Robert Oppenheimer, the director of the Los Alamos Laboratory in New Mexico.
Newton Stapleton was born in southern Georgia. He was a lawyer by training. Before the war, he worked for the FBI.
