National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Barney J. O’Keefe served in the military as an ensign during the war. He was a member of Project Alberta, the team that transported and assembled the two atomic bombs preceeding the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Samuel King Allison was an American physicist. Allison was born in Chicago, in 1900. He studied at the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.
Samuel McNeight was a DuPont employee member who was a part of the team tasked with constructing the B Reactor at Hanford.
Herman H. Fussler was the Assistant Director of the Information Division and Librarian of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
