National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Leo James Rainwater was an American physicist and winner of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics. As a graduate student at Columbia University, Rainwater assisted the Manhattan Project through research in the Substitute Alloy Materials (SAM) Lab.
W. Q. Smith worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
Charles Cooper was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Joyce Peterson worked in the Y-12 Plant at Oak Ridge, Tennesse for the Tennessee Eastman Company from 1943 to 1945.
