National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John Henry Manley (1907-1990) was an American physicist. Manley worked on the Manhattan Project almost from its beginning, starting at the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.
Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.
