National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Sir Rudolf Peierls (1907-1995) was a German-born British physicist. In March 1940, Peierls and fellow collegue Otto Frisch co-authored the Frisch-Peierls memorandum, the first technical exposition of a practical atomic weapon.
Charles Rea worked for the United States Engineer District Office.
Donald William Kerst is an American physicist known for his development of the betatron in 1940 and the Water Boiler Reactor at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project.
Dorothy Lipps was a stenographer at the University of Chicago’s Metallurgical Laboratory (“Met Lab”) during the Manhattan Project.
