National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
A. A. Groppe worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Patricia Walsh was a research assistant at the Chicago Met Lab during the Manhattan Project. Walsh was born in 1920 in Washington, D.
Herbert E. Kubitschek (1920-1989) was an American biologist and physicist. He studied under Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and was present when Chicago Pile-1, the world’s first self-sustained nuclear chain reaction, went critical on December 2, 1942.
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.
