L. M. Richards

President, Atlantic Richfield Hanford CompanyHanford, WA

T-Plant/200 Areas

Project Worker/Staff

Listen to L. M. Richards’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

L. M. Richards was President of the Atlantic Richfield Hanford Company, which took over chemical processing operations at Hanford in 1967.

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