National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Warren Nyer (1921-2016) was an American physicist. Nyer was nineteen and studying physics at the University of Chicago when he was hired as a research assistant with the Office of Scientific Research and Development, an early part of the bomb-building program.
John George Waugh was a physicist working at Los Alamos in 1945. Waugh received his B.S. and M.S.
W. M. Miller worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967) was an American theoretical physicist. During the Manhattan Project, Oppenheimer was director of the Los Alamos Laboratory and responsible for the research and design of an atomic bomb.
