National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
T. R. Elkins worked for the H. K. Ferguson Company.
W. H. Thirloway worked for the Union Carbide & Carbon Corporation.
Arthur Compton (1892-1962) was an American physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics. A top administrator and advisor during the Manhattan Project, Compton played a key role in the making of the atomic bomb.
Howard R. Kratz (1916-2013) was a nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
