National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Born Eugenia Kannegiesser, Eugenia “Genia” Peierls was a Russian physicist and wife of German-born physicist Rudolf Peierls.
Harry S. Truman (1884-1972) was the 33rd President of the United States of America. Truman first learned of the Manhattan Project after the death of President Roosevelt in April of 1945, when he relinquished his role as Vice President and took the oath of office as the next president of the United States.
Josephine Minch was a research assistant in physics at the University of Chicago Met Lab.
