National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Percy Spencer was an American physicist and inventor. Spencer was born in 1894 in Howland, Maine. He dropped out of grammar school at age 12 to work as a spindle boy in a weaving mill, but in his early years he taught himself about electricity, even setting up a new electrical system at a local […]
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.
William “Bill” J. Knox was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
W. P. Lewis worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
