National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
John Vach was a guard at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
Betsy Stuart worked as a secretary for the electrical engineering department at Hanford. Her husband, Charles F.
Whitesides worked for Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation.
