National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
Lester Skaggs (1911-2009) was an American physicist. Skaggs was born in Missouri, where he grew up on a farm.
