National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
W. Neil Rogers worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
William Leroy Parker graduated from Auburn University in 1938. He was in ROTC and commissioned as a 2nd Lt.
