National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.
James H. Coon was an American physicist. He worked on the Manhattan Project at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory and at Los Alamos.
Fred Brownell worked for the Comstock-Bryant Electric Company.
Wayne Alexander Bowers was born on March 1, 1919 in Bilbao, Spain. His father traveled as a minister, so Bowers grew up in small towns throughout Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia.
