National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William Karush (1917-1997) was an American mathematician and physicist. After earning his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1942, Karush worked briefly at the Carnegie Institution of Washington before returning to Chicago to join the Manhattan Project.
Thelma Buckner worked for the H. K. Ferguson Company.
Hans von Halban (1908-1964) was an Austrian born French physicist. He finished his studies in 1934. He joined nuclear physicist Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, where he and Otto Frisch discovered that heavy water had very little neutron absorption compared to normal water.
