National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Russell Stanton graduated from the University of Delaware with a degree in civil engineering in 1937.
J. Ernest Wilkins Jr. (1923-2011) was a prominent African American mathematician and physicist who worked at the University of Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project.
Ralph Lapp was an American physicist. He was born in Buffalo, New York in 1917. He was completing his PhD at the University of Chicago when he stumbled upon Enrico Fermi’s team working under Stagg’s Field in December of 1942, and was hired on the spot to work on the development of the atomic bomb.
Thomas R. Williams was a laborer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Lab (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
