National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Warren Nyer (1921-2016) was an American physicist. Nyer was nineteen and studying physics at the University of Chicago when he was hired as a research assistant with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, an early part of the bomb-building program.
Earney Mize served in the 1395th Military Police Company, Aviation.
Pearl Jones worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
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.
