National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
William J. Van Buskirk was a machinist who worked at Los Alamos for over three decades. Van Buskirk started working at Los Alamos in 1943, a year after he graduated from high school.
William Penney (1909-1991) was a British mathematician and physicist. William Penney’s first assignment of the war was a research position with the Royal Navy, studying collisions, explosions and shockwaves and searching for ways to use hydrodynamics to assist the navy.
B. Roswell Russell worked in the Health Group at the Metallurgical Laboratory in Chicago during the Manhattan Project.
