National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Horace Russell was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. He graduated from Duke in 1938 with a degree in chemistry and was remembered by his classmates as a brilliant chemist.
Benjamin Nelson served in the Army at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Gerald E. Bean served in the 509th Headquarters and Base Services Squadron.
Walt Grisham grew up on a farm at Hanford in the 1930s. He was serving in the Air Force in England during World War II when his parents were informed that they would need to leave the farm – the site was being requisitioned for the Manhattan Project.
