National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lyndon Richards served in the First Ordnance Squadron.
Louis D. Wilson was a laborer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
James A. Parsons was an American chemical engineer. Parsons was born in Hand County, South Dakota. Upon graduation from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, B.
Elmer began working with the Manhattan Project in 1941. He was one of the first people to arrive at Oak Ridge and experienced first-hand some of the difficulties there with cyclotrons and isotope separation.
