National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Eldred C. “E.C.” Nelson (1917-2008) was an American physicist. Not long after arriving at the University of California, Berkeley to study physics, Nelson was recruited by his professor, J.
James R. Corliss served as a technical sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was regularly assigned to work as a flight engineer on the Up An’ Atom but did not fly in that plane during the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
