National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
W. A. Emmons worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Joseph McNaught served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.
Irene LaViolette was born in Manhattan in 1920. After she finished kindergarten, her family moved to Greece, where her grandparents lived, due to diminishing economic prospects in the United States.
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.
