National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Wright worked at th 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Gus Essig began working on the Manhattan Project in May, 1946 in Dayton, Ohio. Essig was selected to work in the highly classified initiator program and spent several months at Los Alamos learning how to design and construct initiators.
John D. Hopper served as a civilian in Project Alberta.
Patricia Cox Owen joined the Manhattan Project in 1942, where she worked as a secretary for General Groves on the fifth floor of the New War building in Washington, D.
