National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Anthony J. Okleshen worked in the shop at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
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.
