National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Samuel Podgor was born to Russian-migrants in New York City. He served in the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos, NM where he worked in the Theoretical Division under Klaus Fuchs.
Herbert York (1921-2009) was a part-Mohawk American physicist. After graduating with a master’s in physics from the University of Rochester in 1942, York went directly to work at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory connected with the Manhattan Project.
Julia Wynne was a chemist in the Y-12 Plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee from June 1944 through the end of the war.
