National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Howard Parsons was an American physicist. Parsons was born in Chicago in 1920. He receieved a B.S. from the University of Chicago, and shortly afterwards was hired to work on the Manhattan Project as a research assistant at the Chicago Met Lab.
Ples M. Cheek served in the 1st Ordnance Squadron.
Josef Novak worked in the shop at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
