National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923-2011) was a prominent African American mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project.
Lester Skaggs (1911-2009) was an American physicist. Skaggs was born in Missouri, where he grew up on a farm.
Nancy Farley Wood (1903-2003) was an American physicist, teacher, businesswoman, and activist. Born on a farm in Missouri on July 12, 1903, Wood graduated from Warrensburg Teachers College and taught mathematics and physics.
