National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Lawrence Knox was an American chemist. Knox was born in 1906 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. He received a B.
Haskell Sheinberg arrived at Los Alamos in late 1944 as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. Sheinberg’s first assignment was to purify plutonium under the direction of Arthur Wahl, one of the co-discoverers of plutonium.