National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
John P. McBride was a research assistant in the Chemistry Division at the Chicago Met Lab. He was later assigned to Oak Ridge, where he worked on plutonium purification and on isolating uranium-233 isotopes from thorium.
Dr. Karl Larsen worked at Massachusetts Institute of Technology during the Manahattan Project. While there, he conducted heavy-water research by spectrum analysis, which was one of the prerequisites to the early atomic bombs.
T. W. Worten worked for the Tennessee Eastman Corporation at the Y-12 Plant.
Peter Lax is a Hungarian-born American mathematician. Lax and his family left Hungary for America in 1941, just days before Pearl Harbor.
