National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Carl Bennetts documents from New Mexico
Joseph “Joe” A. Haaga (1919-1974) was a nuclear engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project. Born in 1919, Haaga graduated from Notre Dame in June 1940 with a B.
Attended the University of Wisconsin.
William G. (“Bill”) Hudgins spent most of childhood years in New Mexico. He first heard about a secret wartime laboratory at Los Alamos in 1943, when he was a student at the University of New Mexico.
Herman H. Fussler was the Assistant Director of the Information Division and Librarian of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
