National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Chien-Shiung Wu (1912-1997) was a Chinese American physicist. During the Manhattan Project, she worked at Columbia University, helping develop the process for separating uranium metal into U-235 and U-238 isotopes by gaseous diffusion.
Howard R. Kratz (1916-2013) was a nuclear physicist at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Richard F. Cannon served as a corporal in the 393rd Bombardment Squadron. He was assigned as the radar operator in the Necessary Evil, but flew in the Big Stink in the 1945 bombing mission on Nagasaki.
