National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Attended Brown University.
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.
Albert Thompson was a military doctor stationed at Oak Ridge, Tennessee in 1945. Thompson had served in the European Theatre of the war prior to going to Oak Ridge.