National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Wendell Latimer (1893-1955) was an American chemist. A Kansas native, Latimer arrived at the University of California, Berkeley to pursue a Ph.
Herbert York (1921-2009) was a part-Mohawk American physicist. After graduating with a master’s in physics from the University of Rochester in 1942, York went directly to work at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory connected with the Manhattan Project.
