National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William E. Smith served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was a member of the ground crew regularly assigned to the B-29 Straight Flush.
L. D. Percival King was an American physicist. After receiving his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Chicago, King became an instructor in the Physics Department at Purdue University.
Attended the University of Pennsylvania.
Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.