National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
Jane Greer Puckett was a mathematician-statistician in Oak Ridge during the Manhattan Project. Early Years Puckett was born on May 24, 1922 in Paris, Tennessee.
