National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Robert Cornog (1912-1998) was an American physicist and engineer. When the United States entered World War II in 1941, Robert Cornog was working for the Navy on subsurface warfare and the development of ways to counter magnetic, undersea mines.
Reuben McCord was a chemist who worked at several Manhattan Project sites. After graduating from Erskine College in South Carolina, he was recruited to work at the University of Chicago Metallurgical laboratory.
