National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
E. J. Wherland served in the 390th Air Service Group.
Jerome Karle (1918-2013) was an American chemist and Nobel laureate. During the war, Jerome Karle and his wife, Isabella Karle, worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago.
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and the 1965 Nobel Prize winner. During the summer of 1943, Schwinger briefly worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
