National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert Cornog (1912-1998) was an American physicist and engineer. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Robert Cornog was working for the Navy on subsurface warfare and the development of ways to counter magnetic, undersea mines.
Ernest Wende was transferred into the Manhattan District, the branch of the United States Army Corps of Engineers tasked with overseeing the construction of critical Manhattan Project sites, shortly after its formation in 1942.
John von Neumann was a Hungarian-American mathematician, physicist, and polymath. A child prodigy, by the age of eight he was familiar with calculus and knew Ancient Greek.
F. B. Vaughn worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
