National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
LeRoy Thornton worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Leslie Nemeth was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
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.
James B. Sullivan served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
Edith (Goldfarb) Sabshin was a junior physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
