National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Donald Ames joined the Manhattan Project as a G.I. at the University of Chicago in 1943. Ames worked under Nobel Prize chemist Glenn Seaborg at the Metallurgical Laboratory, where he helped determine the chemical properties of plutonium and developed a rapid method for measuring the radium concentration in solutions.
Juan Sanchez was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Albert Young was a patent attorney at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
