National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Rainwater assisted the Manhattan Project through research in the Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Lab.
John Polito served in the First Ordnance Squadron.
When Colleen Black’s brother was drafted into the Army in 1942, she and her family decided to move to Oak Ridge to contribute to the war effort and bring her brother home.
