National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Leon Leventhal was a nuclear chemist and radiation expert who worked at Oak Ridge, the University of Chicago’s Met Lab, and Los Alamos Laboratory during the Manhattan Project.
Edgar Sengier (1879 – 1963) was the director of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. After being warned by British scientists regarding the potential danger were the uranium ore to fall into the wrong hands, Sengier decided to transport half the uranium stockpile from the Congo to the United States in 1940.
Joseph G. Shaller served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
