National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Seymour Calvert served for 11 months in the Special Engineering Detachment at Los Alamos. He specialized as a chemical engineer, and carried out experiments with beryllium that were often dangerous.
Billy B. Burns served in the 509th Headquarters and Base Services Squadron.
Eleanor Granert was a stenographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
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.
