National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Jerome Otto Ackerman was a member of the Special Engineer Detachment who served as a group leader at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Leslie Ritner was a member of the Special Engineer Detachment at Los Alamos. He was among the first engineers sent to Los Alamos from Camp Claiborne, Louisiana in late January 1944, serving for two years before being discharged in the spring of 1946.
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.
