National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Arthur Julius Olofson joined the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos in June 1944. Olofson developed specialized tools for components of the atomic bomb under Dr.
C. Ladd Prosser was an American physiologist. Prosser was born in 1907 in Avon, New York. He received a B.
Melvin H. Bierman served as a sergeant in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. Bierman was regularly assigned as a tail gunner in the Up An’ Atom, but did not fly in that plane in the August 1945 bombing missions on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
