National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Bernard F. Benson served in the 320th Troop Carrier Squadron.
Edgar Sengier (1879 – 1963) was the director of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. After being warned by British scientists regarding the potential danger were the uranium ore to fall into the wrong hands, Sengier decided to transport half the uranium stockpile from the Congo to the United States in 1940.
James F. Schumar was a metallurgist. In 1940, he became Chief Metallurgist at Wolverine Tube Company.
Norma J. Hinton was a laboratory technician at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
