National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Hans von Halban (1908-1964) was an Austrian born French physicist. He finished his studies in 1934. He joined nuclear physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, where he and Otto Frisch discovered that heavy water had very little neutron absorption compared to normal water.
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.
B. A. Howle served in the 509th Headquarters and Base Services Squadron.
Thompson worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.
