National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Victor Kumin was born on August 2, 1921 in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was the third child of Samuel Kumin and Clara Montwid, who had both come to the United States from Latvia as young children with their families.
Dr. Henry Lewis Barnett was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1914. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree at Washington University in 1934, and his medical degree in 1938.