National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Tufts University.
Walt Simon, a chemist, was Hanford’s first Operations Manager. Before joining the Manhattan Project, he was plant manager at Wabash River Ordnance Works, a DuPont plant near Terre Haute, Indiana.
L. D. Percival King was an American physicist. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago, King became an instructor in the Physics Department at Purdue University.