National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Dana Mitchell was an American physicist. He was in charge of procurement for the physics department at Columbia University during the first year of the Manhattan Project.
Dr. Muriel Cuykendall was a physician at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project. She was married to engineering physicist Trevor Cuykendall, who also worked on the project at Los Alamos.
Peter Lax is a Hungarian-born American mathematician. Lax and his family left Hungary for America in 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor.
Lorraine Golden (Heller) Crawford was a research assistant in the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
