National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Crum was born on September 4, 1925, in Hancock County, IL. He was the seventh of eight siblings who grew up on a farm in Western Illinois near the Mississippi River.
Lauchlin M. Currie was born in 1897. Currie was a chemical engineer who worked in barrier production at the Houdaille-Hershey plant in Decatur, IL.