National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
James A. Parsons was an American chemical engineer. Parsons was born in Hand County, South Dakota. Upon graduation from South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, B.
Ward A. Bouvier served from November 1943 to the end of the war, designing and producing precision instruments used by the scientific personnel at the Met Lab of the University of Chicago.
Waldrop arrived at Oak Ridge in early 1944, directly after receiving his Army basic training. At Oak Ridge, he worked at the Y-12 plant during the Manhattan Project.
