National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
A. U. Avera worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Gawthrop worked at the 300 Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Attended Pennsylvania State University.
Colonel Franklin Matthias (1908 – 1993) was the officer-in-charge at the Hanford site. Matthias, a civil engineer, had been a close associate of General Groves since the beginning of the Manhattan Project, and was asked to review sites in the West.
