National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Edgar Sengier (1879 – 1963) was the director of Union Miniere du Haut Katanga. After being warned by British scientists regarding the potential danger were the uranium ore to fall into the wrong hands, Sengier decided to transport half the uranium stockpile from the Congo to the United States in 1940.
Jackie Peterson is an independent curator and exhibit developer in Seattle, Washington. Peterson earned her bachelor degrees in English and History from Georgetown University and a master’s degree in Museum Studies from New York University.
Frances T. Janis was a laboratory technician in the Health Division of the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
Dickinson worked in the United States Engineer District Office.
