National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
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.
Vanstrum began working on the Manhattan Project soon after receiving his engineering degree from the University of Minnesota.
James Jensen was a machinist at Hanford, Washington from September 1944 to the end of the war. Jensen's security clearance allowed him to machine parts and complete various tasks for the maintenance of the nuclear piles.
