National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ruth Volcker worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Right after Pearl Harbor with her new high school diploma, Mary Compton applied to TVA for a war job.
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
Urban worked at the 200 West Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
