National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Joe McKibben was born and raised in rural Missouri before obtaining a PhD in physics from the University of Wisconsin.
William Novakovich (1917-2003) served in the Army at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Robert F. Christy (1916-2012) was a Canadian-American theoretical physicist Christy’s doctoral advisor at the University of California, Berkeley was Robert Oppenheimer, but Christy’s initial involvement with the Manhattan Project came at the Metallurgical Lab at the University of Chicago.
Harvey L. Piepho served in the First Ordnance Squadron.
