National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Harry Daghlian (1921-1945) was an American physicist. He died in 1945 from radiation poisoning after a criticality accident at Los Alamos.
Julian Schwinger (1918-1994) was an American theoretical physicist and the 1965 Nobel Prize winner. During the summer of 1943, Schwinger briefly worked on the development of the atomic bomb at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory.
Hilgeman worked at the 100-D Area at Hanford during the Manhattan Project.
Winston Grice was a millwright at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
