National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Leo Szilard (1898-1964) was a Hungarian-American physicist and inventor. EARLY LIFE Leo Szilard was born Leo Spitz on February 11, 1898 in Budapest, Hungary.
Louis Bernard Werner was an American chemist. Werner received a B.S. from the University of Idaho, and was working on his doctorate at the Univeristy of Chicago at Berkeley when he was recruited to work on the Manhattan Project at the Chicago Met Lab.
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.
Jack D. East worked in the Instrument and Physical Measurements Group in Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
