National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lew Kowarski was a Russian-born French physicist. He worked as part of the team that discovered that neutrons were emitted in the fission of uranium-235 in the 1930s, setting the groundwork for the use of nuclear chain reactions in the design of the atomic bomb.
Josef Novak worked in the shop at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Paschal Hamrick worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.