National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Nora Dene Lawson worked as a calutron operator at the Y-12 Separations Plant in Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project.
Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.
