National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
Edward A. Ryan Jr. served in the First Ordnance Squadron.
Harold Urey (1893-1981) was an American physical chemist and winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
