National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John R. Dunning (1907-1975) was an American physicist. Dunning gained the reputation in his small community of Shelby, Nebraska as the town’s smartest kid.
Henry Barwick worked as a plumber, pipefitter, and steamfitter during the building of the Y-12 plant at Oak Ridge.
Although the flow of information about the Manhattan Project was tightly controlled, New York Times reporter William L.
Howard Rosenthal served in the First Ordnance Squadron.
