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Kenneth Bainbridge (1904-1996) was an American physicist. In September 1940, Bainbridge was the first physicist to be recruited by Ernest Lawrence to the microwave “radio location” project that became the Radiation Laboratory at MIT.
Emil J. Konopinski (1911-1990) was an American theoretical physicist. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, Konopinski worked as a National Research Council Fellow with Hans Bethe at Cornell University.
Frederick D. Kopka served in the 1027th Air Material Squadron.
Gioacchino Failla was an Italian-American physicist who served as a consultant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
