National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
W. T. Hanson, Jr. worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
J. M. Comly worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
The following are excerpts from “Converging Lines,” a genealogy and family history book researched and written by Norma McKinney, as well as oral recollections from her in 2011 and Charles’ remembrances to his grandson in 1990 for an eighth grade report.
Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.