National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Ardis (Thomas) Monk was a research assistant and mathematician at the University of Chicago Met Lab, where she performed computations for Eugene Wigner’s theoretical physics group.
James Mc Tigrit was a military officer at los Alamos.
Ellsworth Risley was a staff worker at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Joan Elizabeth Curran (1916-1999) was a Welsh physicist. Curran was born in Swansea, Wales. During World War II, she worked on Operation Windows, where she invented the “chaff,” a technique which could disrupt enemy radar.
