National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Karush (1917-1997) was an American mathematician and physicist. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1942, Karush worked briefly at the Carnegie Institution of Washington before returning to Chicago to join the Manhattan Project.
William “Willie” H. Zachariasen was a physicist and consultant at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
