Norman Christiansen was born on October 11th, 1931 in Red Lodge, Montana. He moved to Las Vegas, Nevada in 1956 after graduating college in Montana. Christiansen worked at the Nevada Test Site for two years and was a teacher at various schools.
Philip Wymer Allen was born August 3, 1918 in Russell Iowa.
Allen obtained a bachelor of science degree from Parsons College in Iowa in 1940; one year of education at Iowa State College in 1941; Associates degree in Meteorology from the University of Chicago, Illinois in 1942; and one year of education at UCLA in 1967.
Allen was active in the United States Army Air Corps from June 23. 1941 to January 16, 1946.
Consulting geologist and surveyor Franklin Mac Murphy was born on December 27, 1898 in Wheaton, Minnesota. He studied at Columbia University, the University of Arizona, and the University of California, Los Angeles, completing his graduate studies in 1930 at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California.