National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Colonel Franklin Matthias (1908 – 1993) was the officer-in-charge at the Hanford site. Matthias, a civil engineer, had been a close associate of General Groves since the beginning of the Manhattan Project, and was asked to review sites in the West.
Dr. Lauren Donaldson (1903-1998) was an ichthyologist who was hired by the Manhattan Engineering District at Hanford to monitor effects of radioactive contamination in the Columbia River.
