National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Rose Polytechnic Institute.
Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.
Pettengill served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
DeRenzis worked in the United States Engineer District Office.