National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.
John Draughon worked for Clinton Laboratories at the X-10 Reactor.
George Kistiakowsky (1900-1982) was a Ukrainian-American physical chemist. He joined the Manhattan Project in late January 1944, leaving his role as chief of the National Defense Research Committee’s Explosives Division.
