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Wilcox P. Overbeck

Chicago, IL

Wilcox P. Overbeck was a research associate and instrumentation designer at the Chicago Met Lab. He was responsible for calling out the neutron count when Chicago Pile-1 went critical on December 2, 1942.

Margaret B. Wills

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Margaret Wills worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.

Joe L. Clark

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Joe L. Clark served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron. 

John W. Calkin

Los Alamos, NM

​John W. Calkin graduated from Columbia University in 1933. He then earned a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard.