National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Smith worked at the 200 East Area at Hanford 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.
Eugene Gardner was a student of Ernest Lawrence in the 1940’s and did his graduate work as a part of Lawrence’s group at the Radiation Laboratory at UC Berkeley.
