National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
B. H. Hagedorn worked for the Edenfield Electric Company.
Carolyn Beatrice Parker was born in Gainesville in 1917, during the Jim Crow era. Her father, Dr. Julius A.
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.
Philip C. Leahy was a Major in the United States Army. During World War II, he was placed in charge of establishing a domestic uranium procurement program for the Manhattan Project.
