National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.
Margaret Schelberg was a nurse at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. She was married to physicist Arthur Schelberg.
