National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Lyon was a research assistant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Winifred Elizabeth (Varner) Seagondollar was an administrative assistant at Los Alamos and the wife of physicist L.
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.
