National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Victor Kumin was born on August 2, 1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the third child of Samuel Kumin and Clara Montwid, who had both come to the United States from Latvia as young children with their families.
Haskell Sheinberg arrived at Los Alamos in late 1944 as part of the Special Engineer Detachment. Sheinberg’s first assignment was to purify plutonium under the direction of Arthur Wahl, one of the co-discoverers of plutonium.
Loy F. Houser served in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron.
