National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
H. L. Nussmeyer worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
William Kann was a research associate at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Ward A. Bouvier served from November 1943 to the end of the war, designing and producing precision instruments used by the scientific personnel at the Met Lab of the University of Chicago.
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.
