National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Richard Claassen was a research assistant at the SAM Lab at Columbia University from 1944 to 1946. While there, he built and used fluidic systems to test for unusual leaks in diffuser tubes.
Duren Howard Shields was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. During his time there, he worked on building the experimental casing for the bomb.
Sherman Winters was a janitor at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
