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.
Ardes Shea (née Memmott) worked in a DuPont office at Hanford, WA during the Manhattan Project. Ardes was born in Scipio, Utah in December of 1922.
