National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joseph R. Lewis served in the 603rd Air Engineering Squadron.
Hoyt Nelson worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
Horace Owen France was an associate biologist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Enrico Fermi (1901-1954) was an Italian physicist and recipient of the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics. In 1942, Fermi relocated to the Chicago Met Lab, where he built an experimental reactor pile under Stagg Field at the University of Chicago.
