National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert Lyle was a member of the Special Engineering Detachment assigned to Oak Ridge, Tennessee as a chemist.
August “Gus” Knuth was a millwright and carpenter who helped construct Chicago Pile-1. He was present on December 2, 1942 when the pile went critical in the first self-sustaining chain reaction in history.
Robert Coveyou was a mathematician and health physicist that worked at both the Met Lab in Chicago and at the X-10 graphite reactor in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Winifred T. Koziolek was a laboratory technician the Chemistry Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
