National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joan Hinton (1921-2010) was an American physicist who later defected to China. Hinton was born into a precocious family.
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
