National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lewis worked in the 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.
Attended the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
