National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Herbert York (1921-2009) was a part-Mohawk American physicist. After graduating with a master’s in physics from the University of Rochester in 1942, York went directly to work at the Berkeley Radiation Laboratory connected with the Manhattan Project.
Joseph “Joe” A. Haaga (1919-1974) was a nuclear engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project. Born in 1919, Haaga graduated from Notre Dame in June 1940 with a B.
Hugh Barnett worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation at Manhattan, NY and Oak Ridge, TN during the Manhattan Project.
Miriam Young-Krollman was a member of the Women's Army Corps and worked at Los Alamos from April 1945 to August 1946 measuring samples of radioactive materials.
