National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Sterling “Deak” Parsons was a Rear Admiral in the United States Navy. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1922 and the Naval Postgraduate School in 1929 with a concentration in ordnance.
William J. Van Buskirk was a machinist who worked at Los Alamos for over three decades. Van Buskirk started working at Los Alamos in 1943, a year after he graduated from high school.
Edward S. Fleischer was born on November 3, 1921, in Palo Alto, California. During the 1930s he attended the University of California, Berkeley.
