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.
Maurice “Maury” Shapiro was an American physicist who studied underwater explosions at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Woodson Clay worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
